How to Use verbena in a Sentence

verbena

noun
  • Lemon verbena can be used in pesto, marinades, fruit salads, or teas.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 July 2024
  • Serve the verbena lemon curd in dessert bowls alongside shortbread cookies and small scoops of ice cream.
    — Daniel Boulud, ELLE Decor, 15 Apr. 2015
  • Make sure the crepe myrtle doesn’t shade verbena too much since this perennial does like some sun.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Lemon verbena, also called lemon beebrush, grows best in full sun, planted in rich, moist soil.
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2023
  • Yerba buena, lavender, lemon balm, orange thyme and verbena to help with sleep.
    — Sherry Stern, Orange County Register, 14 June 2019
  • Twenty-two plants are included as nectar sources from bee balm and gaura to phlox and verbena.
    — Karen Zurawski, Houston Chronicle, 2 July 2019
  • The other essential thing for me is the bath salts from Mistral that smell like verbena.
    — Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2024
  • But in spring, the rugged terrain is often softened by desert-sand verbena and desert sunflowers.
    — Angela Hill, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
  • Dozens of butterflies floated through the purple blooms of cone flowers, iron weed and verbena.
    — Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Petunias, verbena, and calibrachoa all have bloomed their little hearts out and are now full of dead flowers or seed heads.
    — Sally McCabe, Philly.com, 29 June 2018
  • Then, there’s the scent—a citrusy, woodsy blend of amber, peach blossom, lemon, and verbena that lingers in the most alluring way.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 29 June 2024
  • The lemon verbena, reminiscent of lemonade spiked with herbs?
    — Peter Rowe, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 June 2017
  • The room smells like lemon verbena, peppermint, tarragon, anise hyssop, and tulsi.
    — Shawn Wen, Bon Appetit, 28 Feb. 2017
  • Groom, deadhead, and cut back leggy annuals like petunias and verbena.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Garden verbenas are bred to be prolific bloomers, putting on a profusion of flowers from late spring to fall in a range of colors.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Prairie verbena makes a wonderful groundcover or edging plant in any garden bed.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 18 May 2025
  • Use garden verbena in containers and along borders, or plant tall purple top verbena to wave in the breeze.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
  • Arrange lobelia with impatiens, verbena, or petunias for a planter that's bursting at the seams.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
  • Prairie verbena makes a wonderful groundcover or edging plant in any garden bed.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The verbena is known for its beautiful flowers, which are often striking during the spring and summer.
    — Kate Nateras, Architectural Digest, 10 June 2026
  • The second must-have plant is almond verbena (Aloysia virgata).
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • This eau de parfum is replete with notes of Florentine iris, lemon, verbena and violet leaves.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 23 June 2022
  • The only other common name is sweet almond verbena, and everyone seems to agree with the one botanical name.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The dinner started with a salad made with radishes, carrots, broad beans, stracciatella and verbena oil.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The dinner started with a salad made with radishes, carrots, broad beans, stracciatella and verbena oil.
    — PEOPLE.com, 12 June 2019
  • The colors and smells of dwarf wild indigo, prairie verbena, golden smoke, firewheel, and purple aster, among other flora, are easy to love.
    — Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 22 May 2025
  • The most wonderful Agen prunes are stuffed with prune puree; Bill Yosses uses them in the verbena dan.
    — Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Social media was filled with images of the vast fields of desert sunflowers, purple verbena, or fiery red ocotillo flowers.
    — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Nasturtiums, million bells, trailing verbena and sweet alyssum also lend themselves nicely to the pots.
    — ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Pink and red ivy geraniums, dark red calibrachoa, and purple Lanai verbena are spillers.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 16 June 2023

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