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Old 09-20-2021, 03:31 AM
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Originally Posted by LianaB View Post
I’ve been in/around The Villages for nearly 8 years and have always appreciated the landscaping and flowers throughout the neighborhoods. This year though, they look more like weeds! I’m wondering if they simply cut the budget, or what??
Those taller purple flowers are verbenas not weeds. They do tend to lean and meander a bit and that might not please everyone. Landscapers like them because you can see through them and they don’t form a solid block of foliage. I lost a good number of them a few years back as the soil they were planted in was too heavy and wet. Verbenas like well drained soil. I have some ‘volunteer” verbenas that came up on their own this year and they are doing well. I did notice that this year the landscapers had planted them in the median gardens.