Garden Plant: Red Riding Hood Penstemon
Red Riding Hood Penstemon
Product Description: Red Riding Hood Penstemon
My, What Big Flowers You Have!
You’ve seen those fairy-tale movies where the Princess sings a lovely song and all of the forest birds and animals come running to her to enjoy the song?
We can’t make that happen to you.
But we might can come close. Red Riding Hood Penstemon (Penstemon schmidel \’Red Riding Hood’) is the stuff of fairy tales. This lovely perennial comes back every year to bring beautiful, lipstick-red, tubular flowers to your garden like a magic spell. Along with those gorgeous flowers will come hordes of hummingbirds eager to drink the abundant nectar. So, if you stand in the garden and sing a song it will certainly seem like the forest birds are coming to listen to you!
The flowers are born clustered on long wand-like stems that wave in the breeze like royal flags. They keep coming all summer and into the fall. The foliage is green and upright which gives great texture to garden borders and beds.
These drought-tolerant plants only need occasional watering once they are established and are great in rock-gardens and urban prairies. They also are prime additions to cutting gardens and perennial containers. For a truly stunning look, pair Red Riding Hood with Pink Muhly Grasses in big drifts.
Don’t keep wishing for dreams to come true. Order Red Riding Hood Penstemon from us today and live the fairy tale!
- Hardy
- Stunning, Ruby Red Flowers
- Xeric
- Firescaping