Twizzle Purple Penstemon Seeds

New Color for the Beard-tongue Family!

Winner of both an AAS and Fleuroselect, it flowers the first year!

Genus: Penstemon
Species: barbatus
Variety: ‘Twizzle Purple’
Item Form: (P)Pkt of 25 seeds
Zone: 4 – 9
Bloom Start to End: Mid Summer – Early Fall
Habit: Upright
Seeds Per Pack: 25
Plant Height: 2 ft 4 in – 2 ft 11 in
Plant Width: 16 in
Bloom Size: 1 in
Additional Characteristics: Award Winner,Bloom First Year,Butterfly Lovers,Cut-and-Come-Again,Easy Care Plants,Evergreen,Flower,Free Bloomer,Hummingbird Lovers,Long Bloomers
Bloom Color: Dark Magenta,Blue,Dark Purple
Foliage Color: Medium Green,Silver/Gray
Light Requirements: Full Sun
Moisture Requirements: Dry,Moist, well-drained
Resistance: Cold Hardy,Disease Resistant,Drought Tolerant,Heat Tolerant
Soil Tolerance: Normal, loamy,Poor
Uses: Beds,Border,Containers,Cut Flowers,Outdoor,Wildflowers

(P)?Pkt of 25 seeds

The Twizzle family just can’t stop winning awards . . . and no wonder! This purple variety introduces a whole new color into the Beard-tongue family, as well as flowering the first year from seed. Recipient of both America’s and Europe’s highest honors for flowering seed, Twizzle Purple will dazzle you!

Flag-shaped magenta-violet blooms flutter all along the tall, slender stems of this native perennial, signaling to butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds that a nectar source is near. Boasting half the foliage of older varieties, Twizzle Purple also sports twice the flowering stem, bringing you longer, more elegant blooming wands without sacrificing plant size! And still, like its award-winning sister Scarlet, Purple is compact enough for containers.

And best of all, Twizzle is open pollinated. This means the plant will come true from seed. 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!

Sow these seeds in fall for earlier spring blooms, or start indoors in late winter for first-year summer blooms. Twizzle doesn’t mind! A long-lived perennial in most climates, it makes itself right at home!

Quite drought-tolerant once established in the garden, Twizzle sets masses of 1- to 1?-inch tubular blooms. It loves dry soil and doesn’t mind poor fertility, heat, or other stresses. Twizzle is a fine choice for containers as well as the sunny border. Zones 4-9.