Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
It took me a while to cotton on to the usefulness of penstemons (also known, rather wonderfully, as the ‘beardtongues’), but their ability to inject a strong punch of saturated colour into any planting scheme is something you’d be daft to deny yourself. It’s true that they can look a little tatty through winter since they’re not the hardiest of perennials and can suffer frost damage if cut back before spring – at which point, when they start shooting from the base, it’s a great opportunity to take plentiful cutting material – but it’s a small price to pay for jewel-bright shades in the border in the gap between the end of the paeonies and the beginning of big daisy season. And the pollinators would seem to agree.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
