Nothing pseudo about the spectacle this magenta Penstemon brings to the border – it’s strong growing & long blooming & welcomes the heat & the dry times with total grace. Just be sure that you don’t over-tend it! Overwatering is this plant’s weakness, so love it without the hose. Give it a sunny & dry site, fair to decent drainage & maybe a hummingbird or a few to keep it company? To 3’ tall & up to 2’ wide, it blooms during most of the warm season with punchy pink blooms delicately held on long stalks. Deadhead spent stems to encourage it to rebloom & bush out. Leaves are a healthy green with a bit of gloss on this strain & for a desert plant, they’re holding up excellently to our coastal mildness. Semi-evergreen.

Claire Woods
Propagator