PENSTEMON 'Evelyn'
Small
Sun
Pink
Reasonable soil
Summer
RHS Award of Garden Merit
Pollinator friendly
100% Peat Free
Description
Height x Spread: 45cm x 45cm
'Evelyn' is a beautiful clump-forming, semi-evergreen perennial. Narrow lance-shaped green foliage sits beneath tubular soft-pink flowers with white striped throats. The gorgeous blooms burst onto the scene during the summer.
Keep deadheading as the flowers fade to maintain the vigour of the plant throughout the summer. This superb bed and border plant shouldn't be cut back until after the last frost of the spring. Softwood cuttings can be taken during spring. 'Evelyn' prefers sunny or lightly shaded situations in reasonably good, moisture-retentive, free-draining soil.
H4 - Hardy through most of the UK (-10 to -5)
Available for Mail Order from May - August
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