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Blue Lips Penstemon

Original price was: $12.00.Current price is: $8.40.

SKU: HC014676 Categories: Perennials, Unique Plants

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• ‘Blue Lips’ is a beautiful selection that blooms in spring with short spikes of blue-lipped, lavender throated flowers

• Shear off the faded flowers to reveal the wonderful blue-gray evergreen foliage
• Drought resistant/drought tolerant plant (xeric)

• A High Country Gardens introduction. 2009 Plant of the Year

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10″ tall x 15-18″ wide. Give your garden a kiss of blue with Penstemon ‘Blue Lips’. Discovered by High Country Gardens chief horticulturist David Salman, this showy hybrid Beardtongue is a delight in the late spring garden with its profuse display of bright blue-lipped, lavender throated flowers. After its month-long flowering display, shear off the faded flower spikes to display the plant’s attractive blue-gray mat of needle-like evergreen foliage. A cross between two superb wildflower species, Penstemon crandalii and Penstemon linariodes v. coloradensis, ‘Blue Lips’ a real gem in the Western garden being a showy, long-lived easy-to-grow hybrid wildflower. Plant it in a full sun site in infertile, well-drained soil. Very resistant to browsing rabbits. Cutting propagated. 2009 Plant of the Year.

Learn more about this High Country Gardens introduction for 2009: ‘Blue Lips’ Penstemon: 2009 Plant Of The Year