About
A compact, mound-forming, semi-evergreen subshrub to about 15cm tall from the Rocky Mountains with very small, densely-packed, narrowly elliptic, bright green leaves and numerous, short racemes of small, tubular, bright blue-violet flowers in late spring and early summer. A neat and free-flowering rock garden penstemon for a sunny, very well-drained position.
About the genus
Scutellaria are annuals, herbaceous perennials or sub-shrubs with opposite pairs of leaves and blue, violet, yellow or white, two-lipped, tubular flowers borne in the leaf axils or in terminal spikes
Plant details
Suggested usesBedding, containers, hanging baskets.
Care notes
CultivationPlant after last frost in fertile soil.
PruningDeadhead regularly.
PropagationGrow from seed in spring.
Pest resistanceGenerally pest-free.
Disease resistanceGenerally disease-resistant.