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Penstemons can be divided into roughly two types. Border hybrids, which grow to between 60 and 80cm and are very colourful, and species Penstemons which are usually lower growing with smaller flowers. Nearly all originate from North America. Border hybrids tend to flower from June to October and species for a shorter period, earlier in the season.

Penstemon 'Alice Hindley'

A popular penstemon with large showy purple-blue flowers from mid-summer well into autumn. Equally at home in traditional cottage garden or contemporary displays, an ideal plant for the middle of the border. Border Penstemons are happy in...
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Penstemon 'Apple Blossom'

A very attractive penstemon, for the border and containers. Tall stems carry slender soft pink flowers all the way up with slender, mid-green leaves. Flowers from mid-summer well into autumn. Equally at home in traditional cottage garden or...
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Penstemon 'Blackbird'

A very long flowering border Penstemon with elegant and slender dark purple flowers. Flowers from mid-summer well into autumn. Equally at home in traditional cottage garden or contemporary displays, an ideal plant for the middle of the border...
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Penstemon 'Garnet' (Andenken an Friedrich Hahn')

A beautiful Penstemon with deep wine-red, bell-shaped flowers which fill the upright stems above a clump of narrow-leaved foliage. A vigorous grower which makes quite an impact in perennial gardens and exotic, hot coloured borders, and like all...
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Penstemon 'Hidcote Pink'

A lovely Penstemon with rose-pink flowers, streaked with purple on the creamy-white throat. It seems to flower all summer and into autumn. Equally at home in traditional cottage garden or contemporary displays, an ideal plant for the middle of the...
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Penstemon 'King George V'

A tall Penstemon with spikes of large, bright scarlet-red tubular blooms with maroon-streaked white throats. Equally at home in traditional cottage garden or contemporary displays, an ideal plant for the middle of the border. Border Penstemons...
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Penstemon 'Raven'

Sumptuous dark purple flowers with white throats between June and October. Penstemon ‘Raven’ has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society’s prestigious Award of Garden Merit (AGM). Equally at home in traditional cottage...
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Penstemon 'Snowstorm'

Large pristine white flowers with dark anthers. Free and long flowering. Flowers may be tinged with pink at certain times of the year. Equally at home in traditional cottage garden or contemporary displays, an ideal plant for the middle of the border...
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Penstemon 'Sour Grapes' (True Sour Grapes)

A tall and vigorous border penstemon with flowers of soft purple for a long period in summer and autumn. Thought to have been introduced by Margery Fish. This is the rare, correct 'Sour Grapes'. Many nurseries wrongly sell as 'Stapleford Gem' as Sour...
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Penstemon 'Stapleford Gem'

One of the best border Penstemons. A smoky mixture of pink and blue with an almost metallic silver sheen on the back of the purple-streaked slender trumpets over much of the summer and into autumn. This plant is wrongly sold as 'Sour Grapes' by many...
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Penstemon digitalis 'Husker Red'

Clustered heads of green buds opening to white flowers contrast well with foliage stained beetroot purple. Young foliage starts out very purple, turning greener with age. Equally at home in traditional cottage garden or contemporary displays, an...
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Penstemon glaber

A wonderful, short lilac-blue penstemon that flowers from May to October. Penstemons really are fantastic plants for any garden. They don't seem to suffer from any pest or disease and even the slugs avoid them. On top of that, they flower for...
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Penstemon heterophyllus 'Heavenly Blue'

A woody Penstemon which forms a low mound absolutely smothered in flowers throughout summer. The flower colour is predominantly blue, but overlaid with tints of pink and can occasionally be shades of purple and pink. Ideal for front of border or rockery...
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Penstemon pinifolius

Fiery red flowers above neat foliage make this a most desirable alpine. Ideal for rockeries, gravel gardens and pots. Height: 20cm Penstemons can be divided into roughly two types. Border hybrids, which grow to between 60 and 80cm and are very...
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Penstemon pinifolius 'Mersea Yellow'

The yellow version of the more usual red flowered Penstemon. The foliage is a lighter green too. Ideal for rockeries, gravel gardens and pots. Height: 20cm Penstemons can be divided into roughly two types. Border hybrids, which grow to between 60 and...
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Penstemon strictus (The Rocky Mountain Penstemon)

From North America, where it tends to grow among the rocks on mountain-sides and light woodland areas. This is a slowly spreading, upright Penstemon, with lovely purple-blue flowers in late summer and autumn. Ideal for front of border or rockery...
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