Lemon Verbena – Aloysia citriodora

Plant family: Verbenaceae

Plant origin:

Fruit description:

Flowers: The flowers are tiny, white or mauve, appearing on the tips of the branches in Summer.

Growing conditions: Lemon verbena is a deciduous woody shrub about 2 metres high. The leaves are shiny narrow dark green, very aromatic. It likes a warm or subtropical climate, doesn't like cold or frost. Protect it from the wind. Grow your lemon verbena in light well-drained soil, in full sun. Feed it with general plant fertiliser. The shrub can be straggly so prune it often to keep it growing strongly. It grows well in a pot.

Uses: Lemon verbena has beautifully scented leaves. Use them fresh or dried in cooking, to flavour fruit drinks, tea, You can use them to scent a room, or use the dried leaves and flowers to scent linen or clothing, in pot pourri.

Medicinal uses:

Pollination requirements: Self-Pollinating.

Harvest time Pick the leaves any time you wish to use them.

Plant relatives Lemon Verbena is related to other Verbenas, all ornamental plants grown for their flowers and and pleasant aroma. They may be shrubs or ground covers, and include the common annual garden Verbena, and the shrub Rose Verbena.

Special features:

Grown by method: Seed Grown Pot size: 100mm

Plant growing Height and Width for pots or in the ground planting: Grows to 1 metres high by 1 metres wide if Planted in a Pot. Grows 2 metres high by 1 metres wide if Planted in the Ground.

Shipping plant pot or planter bag size: 100mm