From the Waterwise plant sale in 2018
Added several more in 2022, 2023 and 2024 from High Country Gardens
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Expectations:
This is a tiny, low, red flowered beardtongue with very fine needle-like foliage. It is evergreen.
They bloom in late May. They are doing well but need to spread and bulk up.
I eventually had enough to divide a clump, and in 2022 I put the division between the two blue-leaved lambsears at the front of the potting bench curve near the moss rocks. I like the contrast of foliage colors and forms.
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| May 17, 2020. Starting to bloom in mid May |
This is a tiny, low, red flowered beardtongue with very fine needle-like foliage. It is evergreen.
'Compact' stays small and tidy, but needs some room around it to spread a bit. It doesn't like crowding. It wants lean soil and little water.
Experiences:
I planted two in the red volcanic rocks in the front triangle.
The flowers are tiny, and not very profuse, but light catches them in a way that highlights them from inside the house as I sit in the den.
They bloom in late May. They are doing well but need to spread and bulk up.
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| 2022 |
Specimens at the Santa Fe Botanical garden and in pictures show a plant covered densely in bright red. Like so many of my plants, it wants at least medium moisture, not the dry, lean soil advertised.
Bu I really need to cut back the lambs ears and give this little plant room.
In 2022 and 2023 I planted several around the outer ring of the birdbath circle and added more in 2024. It will be a couple years before they bulk up enough to show.
Meanwhile, here's what a friend's maure pineleaf penstmons look like:
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| In a friend's garden 2023 |