Physostegia virginiana 'Pink Manners' - OBEDIENT PLANT 'PINK MANNERS' (non spreading)

Cultivar 'Pink Manners' is well behaved cultivar, that doesn't spread, and is slightly bigger than white flowering 'Miss Manners'.

Clump-forming perennial, compact growth, sturdy upright stems that do not flop and long season of bloom.

Grows usually up to to 3' tall and 1.5-2' wide, blooms from June to September with spikes of soft pink flowers (about 8" long). Rhizomes are very short and plants do not spread. Performs well in any average soil, or heavier soils, with average moisture to moist (slightly wet) soils. Surprisingly can handle well summer droughts (especially on heavier soils).

Deer and clay tolerant perennial, hardy in zones 3-9. Deer resistant plant. It should still be enough attractive for hummingbirds.

Patented cultivar - U.S. Plant Patent PP23,482 (March 19, 2013), propagation is strictly prohibited. Developed in Hubbbardston, Massachusetts in a breeding program in which the goal was to hybridize a cultivar with pink flowers on a clump-forming plant that would lack the spreading rhizomatous growth characteristics typically found on the species of this native wildflower.

Ideal plant for flower beds, cottage gardens, prairie style plantings, pond banks, moist woodland edges.

Picture copyright : robin_ottawa (I'm on the phone!), Commons Wikipedia. Picture shows wild form of Physostegia virginiana (flower color is identical to 'Pink Manners')

Pot Size : square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot