#Penstemon twizzle coral full#
#Penstemon twizzle coral series#

Spring sowing will obviously give them a full season of growth, for flowering July to September. Sowing: Sow between February and April for first year flowers, or sow in September for early summer flowering the next year. Penstemon barbatus ‘Twizzle Coral’ has been awarded the Fleuroselect Award for striking colour, plant habit, and all round flowering performance.

A long-lived perennial, the plants are strong, trouble-free and quite drought-tolerant once established in the garden. Let it self-sow in your garden or collect the seeds in autumn and plant them wherever you want an injection of summer-long colour.

#Penstemon twizzle coral series#

The Twizzle series is open pollinated, this means the plant will come true from seed. The plants are vigorous and low maintenance and will perform best in full sun and well-drained soil. Sow seeds in autumn for earlier spring blooms or start indoors in late winter for first-year summer blooms.

The blooms are crammed tightly along the lengthy stems, making this beauty a magnet for pollinators Twizzle can be used to add height and high-impact colour to containers and annual/perennial borders. Plants form a low clump of green foliage, with upright spikes appearing in mid-summer. The plants bloom profusely with 3 to 4cm (1 to 1½in) tubular flowers on long slender stalks that grow 70 to 80cm (28 to 32in) tall. This year, Twizzle White and Twizzle Blue have been added to the series.īoasting half the foliage of older varieties and twice the length of flowering stem, Penstemon ‘Twizzle’ series brings you longer, more elegant blooming wands without sacrificing plant size. This award-winning flowering series originally offered three colour varieties, Twizzle Coral, Twizzle Purple and Twizzle Scarlet. The plants have an upright plant habit and give superb flowering performance from mid to late summer. This first year flowering perennial boasts taller flower stems than the existing varieties on the market while preserving the natural elegance of Penstemon barbatus. Penstemon barbatus ‘Twizzle’ adds a graceful twist to the garden. We tend to think of penstemons as large-flowered and blowsy, but the first of a new series derived from the American native Penstemon barbatus is rather different.