beautiful pic. Last year was the second year for my 'Royal Candles' plant that I had received at a swap in 2011. After reading the thread and seeing how easy it is to propagate, I immediately went out and took pieces of it and spread it all around my garden, along with 'Eveline', which I had also received at the same swap The new plants are doing really well although not very big yet.
I will try and get some pics tomorrow.

Is it as vigorous a seeder as most veronicas if not deadheaded the instant the flowers start to fade?! :-) I'm on a campaign to rid myself of the last of various veronicas... I love the blue spikes but there were way too many of them in way too short a time! Peachleafed bellflowers (Campanula persicifolia) are my biggest eradication target this year - so pretty in bloom but gazillions of there out there at the moment!

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This post was edited by woodyoak on Wed, Jun 26, 13 at 11:27

'woody', I have so many of these "Royal Candle" plants and I have not seen any evidence of reseeding.

No reseeding here either, I dead head to keep them blooming till frost. I'm happy their so easy to root because mine never reseed and it really doesn't need dividing very often. My camera is giving me fits with accurate color but heres one with daylily flowers of sulfur. Daylily is continuos bloom.

Another with coreopsis Mercury Rising, which is a wonderful rich yellow. Forgive my photo of it.

Rouge, love your picture of RC some very nice other perennials in there also. Now a pic of veronica Hocus Pocus this veronica is dark purple same habits as Royal Candles.

coreopsis mercury rising is not yellow though

'patty' the colours shown in the daylily pic are rich and wonderful.

I am glad you are having more success with your "Hocus Pocus" as I replaced mine with RC. I found my HP were not as sturdy as I would have liked.

I love the blue spires of veronicas and RC look like a particularly nice one but I'm too gun-shy of seeding to give them another chance:-) I do like some things to seed around but those that are too unrestrained about it become unwelcome. Deadheading is not such a simple remedy once you have mobility issues so I'm getting much more picky about what is acceptable. As I look at the front garden this year, I am begining to see the need for a major overhaul but am waiting to see how it performs for the rest of the summer before deciding on what direction it needs to take. I think a large part of it will eventually become a shade garden as things mature a bit more. Sun loving things like veronicas will probably peter-out on their own as the conditions become more shady. Change is an eternal part of the garden!

Looks like Patty meant to say Coreopsis Galaxy, not Mercury Rising. Love the combo of those together, though. Beautiful!

Your correct Galaxy, duh