Penstemon

Cottage-garden favourites with spikes of tubular, foxglove-like flowers from early summer well into autumn. Bees love them, and a sunny, well-drained spot keeps them happy.

Penstemon Pensham Plum Jerkum with plum-purple flowers and buds on a leafy stem
Perennials

Penstemon ‘Pensham Plum Jerkum’

A semi-evergreen penstemon with plum-purple, white-throated flowers from summer into autumn, loved by bees and butterflies and happy in sun or part shade.