Has anybody’s verbena bonariensis got buds yet?

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Following on from another thread wondering if I should give up and replace.

Bit early yet...be another month at least before its in flower...don't give up. So long as it looks green it will be fine. They are extremely tough..

No just looks like dead twigs. No green.

No. Nothing so far as I can see.

Mine looks dead but had to move some and the roots looked like they might be viable. Everything above ground is still a bunch of dry twigs.

I take mine back to the ground each year as it's like a bloody triffid in my garden.

I don't get flowers until June at the earliest and it's still 6/7 foot high by the end of the summer!

No I'm at the stick and dead looking stage. Fairly sure they're dead. I'm the one person on the planet for whom they don't self seed and can't get them to germinate from seeds in trays....

My mum can't get hers to grow well. They're like weeds here, self seed everywhere! They're in a sunny spot and are absolutely rampant!

They love a hot sunny spot with a little shelter from cold in winter. The do best in poor soil so rich fertile soil is not suitable. Mine seed all over the place .

Yes mine do normally. No sign of life left this year though.

Mine thrive all over the garden - hot and sunny but also quite exposed. I'm in the SE, and mine have green leaves at their bases now. I've just hacked back all of last years dead growth.

Mine are just showing signs of life. I've cut the old wood back and they have new shoots. SE here so things are often a bit ahead.

Are you me, lol?! I have no luck with them either and end up buying new each year. This year I might not bother as we're hoping to sell our house and have lost so many plants over the winter I can't justify replacing them all.

I’ve looked at mine today and can see a few shoots. Our soil is clay and very cold at the moment.

I can see they are alive but that's about it

I have 5 in my garden but only one is showing signs of like, the others are just like twigs growing out of the ground in my previous garden I found them very reliable lots of self seeding and grew every year without fail but sadly not this garden, will replace them and hope for the best next year

I tihnk the cold spring might have done for mine.

Bit early still. Mine are around a foot tall but will be three times that before the flowers emerge...probably mid June I'm guessing...

I’m in Scotland. Should I give up on mine or is there still a chance? I loved them last year. Of the new plants I put in last year, this year I have some snail-eaten sweet Williams, one salvia looking cheerful, a grass thing, something that might be a tiny pansy, and two greenfly-infested roses. No verbena, no pimpernels, no Mexican fleabane, no poppies, no echinacea (tbf that died the first week cos the dog peed on it). The tulips haven’t even come back. Gardening is not as easy as it looked…

I think the cold spring did for mine. No sign at all of any life.

@MaryLennoxsScowl it was a cold spring and winter so a lot of stuff that is normally absolutely fine in my garden suffered and also is very slow to get started. I'm NW England.

Just checked on mine and they are now about 2ft tall. South East

@MaryLennoxsScowl and @BarrelOfOtters North East here and I have approximately 3 inches of green growth from one bud. Don’t give up hope yet!

Mine is dead but it struggles to survive overwinter for me most years.

You’re right! There are little shoots on some of the stalks. Thank you!

I cut ours back this weekend, a bit late but the gold finches like the seed heads. All look reasonably spritely

I'm in East Anglian and mine are just sticks still..I think they're officially dead