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Description

This is one of the easiest and most versatile California native plants. This is a hybrid Penstemon, which will produce beautiful, purple blue flowers through much of the year when spent flowers are removed. Foliage grows in low growing mats to 2' tall and 12"-18" wide.

Maintenance Tips

Penstemon heterophyllus 'Margarita BOP' is a California native hybrid perennial. It’s grown for its deep purple, tube-like blossoms that are attractive to pollinators such as bees and hummingbirds. It can grow up to 2’ tall and wide and has thin leaves that give it a fine-textured appearance. Flowers will appear on flower stalks for most of the year but will show up in high numbers in the spring and until summer. Throughout the flowering season, just remove flower stalks from the base, as needed, when each stalk has appeared to stop sending out new flowers. In the late summer, you can cut back the foliage by one-third of the current size and remove any additional branches that have died back.