Lemon Verbena in The Summer Heat

Quite simply, Lemon Verbena loves the hot summer sun. It needs rain (not a month-long Texas monsoon, however) and good drainage.

You can achieve these ideal conditions at home, in flower posts on your deck if that's the best location you have to offer your Lemon Verbena plants where you live.

But you can look forward to a much greater harvest of fresh, green Lemon Verbena leaves if you can set your plants directly in the ground where the roots can spread out farther.

Either in pots or directly in the ground, get started growing the lovely and delightful Alyosia Triphylla (Latin name).

In USDA Zones 9 and 10 your Lemon Verbena plants could grow into bushes or small trees, since they would not die back in cold winter weather each year.