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Veronica longifolia First Love

Common name: Garden Speedwell

Bright and beautiful spires bring elegant sophistication to your garden

-15 to -20°C
Good Cut Flowers
Good for Pollinators

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Young Plants
3 for £18.00
just £6.00 each
10 for £34.00
just £3.40 each
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Bright and beautiful spires bring elegant sophistication to your garden Generous and jaunty blooms are densely packed onto upright stems to bring fresh flower stems all summer. Veronica longifolia ‘First Love’ offers bubble-gum pink blooms over dense, low mounds of thick, weed-suppressing foliage. Flowers are a great way to pull in butterflies and other pollinators to the garden and are an ideal inclusion in containers as well as herbaceous borders. If you are planting a wildlife garden, we think these resplendent beauties are a ‘must have’ too. Veronica make a long-lasting and intriguing inclusion to floral arrangements, with its decorous spires adding elongated form to a vase. Plants are commonly known as Garden Speedwell – a name which relates to their wildflower cousins who would bestow good fortune upon travellers as they spotted them at the roadsides along their journey. Veronica longifolia ‘First Love’ prefers a spot in moist, well-drained soil of any type except chalk based
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Key Information
Latin Name Veronica longifolia First Love YP
Common Name Garden Speedwell
Hardiness H6 (-15 to -20°C)
Colour Pink
Type Perennial
Format Young Plants
Position Full-Sun, Part-Shade, Part-Sun
Height in Maturity (m) 0.40
Spread in Maturity (m) 0.45
Soil Conditions Clay Loam Sand
Aspect East-facing, South-facing, West-facing
Good for pots Yes
Good for wildlife Yes
Good for pollinators Yes
Good for cutting Yes
Good for groundcover Yes

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