Plant of the Week

This has to be the plant of the week, no, more like plant of the season.

Gaura lindheimeri is a genius of a plant, a native of Texas and Mexico.  It is fragile, pretty and light, flows in the breeze and just keeps on flowering with no need to deadhead.

Growing well over 3-4 feet tall and about 3 feet wide in sunny and well drained soil, this stunning plant starts to flower prolifically in late June and keeps on providing delightful pinky-white clusters of flowers on tall thin stems.

Here it is enjoying sharing space with verbena bonariensis, another tall and flowing plant which also looks better when allowed to free-flow.

If you give it space and don't allow larger plants to crowd this little beauty, it will give you months of garden colour and it is also very easy to take cuttings.  Just pull out a stem, very close to the root ball, and soak in water for 24 hours before potting up and keeping moist until it has formed a good root system.