• Eventual Height: 0.75m
  • Eventual Spread: 0.45m
Gaura Gaura

Gaura lindheimeri 'Whirling Butterflies'

Gaura

size: 2 litre pot   available to order from summer 2012    

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  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: fertile, moist well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: average to fast-growing
  • Flowering period: May to September
  • Hardiness: frost hardy (may need winter protection)

    A graceful, hazy plant with airy wands of white, fading to pink, star-shaped flowers with distinctive long anthers like daddy long-legs, held on slender stems from May to September. This exceptionally long-flowering perennial, with slender, grey-green leaves, looks equally at home in an informal cottage-style garden or among soft grasses in a new perennial border. This variety is particularly free-flowering, drought-tolerant and will soak up the sun. Give it space, as its wispy stems will lean over other plants and pathways.

  • Garden care: Resist the temptation to cut back gaura after it has flowered as it takes on beautiful autumn tints, particularly in cold weather. Cut back and lift and divide large colonies in spring.

    • Eventual Height: 0.75m
    • Eventual Spread: 0.45m
    Gaura lindheimeri 'Whirling Butterflies' - Gaura Long-lasting, white flowers. Copes with drought

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