Foxglove Beardtongue

Many homeowners prefer to use native plants where they can, and we're so excited to offer Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) available for your home garden! This is a lovely and elegant perennial that delivers quite a show from late spring through mid-summer!

You'll be rewarded for your dedication by a wonderful show of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators dancing along the long, airy spires of charming white flowers. This is an easy and beautiful way to make a real positive impact on your local ecology! The tubular-shaped blooms are also of considerable interest to hummingbirds!

So many of our native plants have a rough texture, but not this gem. From its long, smooth leaves to the delicate flowers, this plant begs for a special place in your garden. After all, you'll want to be able to study it! Of the hundreds of native species of Beardtongue, all but one are found right here in USDA growing zones 3 through 8! So you just know these plants are hardy and adaptable! It grows at the edge of the forest, so it can handle some light shade, but you'll see fewer blooms.

Planting and Application:

This native form is a larval Host Plant for many types of butterflies and moths, so include them in a Wildflower garden, add height to a Prairie, or naturalized Meadow garden! Perfect vertical structure and lacy blooms for a well-drained spot in your garden, Perennial border, and as a focal point to a Cottage garden. Gorgeous blooms, you'll gain delicate, tall flowering stems for your bouquets indoors!

Beardtongues are water-wise plants, so could be considered for dry parts of your landscape, Rock Gardens, and that hell strip between the road and sidewalk, and mailbox plantings. Cold-hardy perennials that are drought-tolerant once established, making Penstemon perfect for Fire-wise landscaping and Rock gardens.

How about placing a Penstemon at the start of a path? Planted in a massed display, they will create a softly upright, vertical accent! This is an energetic plant that would be a nice dance partner planted behind a cute, tough Groundcover Rose.

• Pink-Tinged White Tubular Blooms
• Upright Mounding Herbaceous Perennial
• Pretty & Graceful Hardy Native Selections
• Very Easy-Care
• Brings Bees, Butterflies & Hummingbirds
• Specimen, Rock Gardens, Borders & Prairie Plants

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Penstemon flowers best in full sun and in well-drained soil conditions, preferring average soil types on the lean side. Provide regular moisture access throughout their first year, but once these herbaceous perennials are established, they are blissfully drought-tolerant and xeric! Provide a 3-4 inch thick layer of Mulch around their crowns.

These are very cold-tolerant; you can leave these seed heads as winter interest and attract songbirds, or deadhead them to tidy up the mounds in fall. Trim all foliage down in late fall after frost, and divide every few years to maintain the vigor of the crown, and you get a second plant out of the deal!

• Blooms Best in Full Sun
• Adaptable - Average to Low Moisture Needs
• Any Very Well-Drained Soil
• Drought-Tolerant Once Established
• Deer & Rabbit-Resistant

Order this graceful native butterfly magnet today! Hardiness and grace go hand in hand with the lovely Foxglove Beardtongue at NatureHills.com!