PENSTEMON TWIZZLE SERIES

It loves dry soil and doesn't mind poor fertility, heat, or other stresses. Trumpet-shaped, vibrant purple flowers are attractive in the border and. It blooms over a long period, stretching from summer to autumn and attracts. Tubular, 1' blooms flower profusely on long slender stalks making this beauty a magnet for pollinators from mid to late summer. Twizzle is a beautiful border plant thriving in a sunny spot and well-drained soil. The Coral, Purple, or Scarlet flowers from early-summer to fall will. 2017 AAS Winner Judges were impressed with this first-year flowering perennial for its upright plant habit and superb flowering performance.

PENSTEMON TWIZZLE SERIES

2017 Fleuroselect Novelty Winner.The award-winning flowering series from seed offers three varieties with an upright habit and superb flowering performance. Plants form a low clump of green foliage, with upright spikes appearing in mid-summer. 1' tubular, vibrant purple blooms on long slender stakes. This hybrid selection is an award winner. Quite drought-tolerant once established in the garden, Twizzle sets masses of 1- to 1½-inch tubular blooms. Beard-tongues are native North American wildflowers, available in a surprising range of colours, heights and textures. Twizzle doesn't mind! A long-lived perennial in most climates, it makes itself right at home! Sow these seeds in fall for earlier spring blooms, or start indoors in late winter for first-year summer blooms. Let it self-sow in your garden or collect the seeds in fall and plant them wherever you want an injection of summer-long color! This means the plant will come true from seed. Boasting half the foliage of older varieties, Twizzle Mix also sports twice the flowering stem, bringing you longer, more elegant blooming wands without sacrificing plant size! Twizzle Mix is compact enough for containers.Īnd best of all, Twizzle is open pollinated. Recipient of both America's and Europe's highest honors for flowering seed, Twizzle Mix will dazzle you!įlag-shaped mixed blooms flutter all along the tall, slender stems of this native perennial, signaling to butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds that a nectar source is near.

and no wonder! This mixed variety introduces a whole new color into the Beard-tongue family, as well as flowering the first year from seed. Sow seeds indoors 8 to 10 weeks before last frost. A very choice perennial for the garden border and useful in floral design. Once established, penstemon makes a low maintenance, drought tolerant perennial.

The Twizzle family just can't stop winning awards. Spires of tubular blooms dangle gracefully above healthy looking foliage.

Penstemon twizzle