Penstemon 'Hewell Pink Bedder'
Penstemons are great cottage garden plants, bringing bees and pollinators into the garden, flowering from mid summer through to the autumn. Penstemon 'Hewell Pink Bedder' has reddish / pink trumpet shaped flowers with a white throat that has deep red streaks running through it. It is a great plant from bringing a splash of colour and will keep flowering if regularly dead headed. I also use it as a cut flower.
Common Name
Beard Tongue
Height and Spread
0.8m x 0.6m
Cultivation
Grow in a sunny position, will tolerate some shade in light, well drained fertile soil. It will not like sitting wet during cold winters.
Dead head to keep the flowers coming. Apply a dry, organic mulch during the autumn to protect it over winter months. Cut back in early spring when severe weather has passed.
Division can be done in spring and softwood cutting in early summer or semi ripe cuttings mid summer
Additional Information
Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit for its outstanding achievements in the garden and the RHS Plants for Pollinators
Great For
Cottage, coastal, wildlife, cut flower gardens and can also work well in perennial container planting