- You will get 50 Seeds of Penstemon Hummingbird Mix Spring Perennial Beardtongue Flower Seeds. - Sunlight: Full Sun, Medium Sun. - Soil Type: Chalk, Clay, Loam, Peat, Sand, Silt. - Life Cycle: Perennial. - Cultivating Difficulty: Easy. - Watering: Medium. - Penstemon Barbatus Compact Mix is a very long flowering, native perennial and produces almost non-stop flushes of gorgeous blooms! - Penstemon, also known as beardtongues, are extremely hardy and can withstand the poorest of soils. You'll see penstemons growing in gravelly soil, steep hills, and even gravel slides! - This compact drought tolerant mix will produce pinks, rose, purple and blue and attracts hummingbirds! - It does fantastic in containers and window boxes. It would be ideal for small space gardening like balconies or small decks. - Penstemon will be the focal point of a planter and will serve as the "thriller" plant when designing a planter arrangement. - Penstemons are Hummingbird magnets! In fact, it could be the Hummingbirds favorite flower with its corolla shape that is ideally shaped for Hummingbird to extract nectar. - They're also fantastic as borders and bedding plants with their showy flowers! - Penstemons are a dry water condition tolerant plant and will do well in areas with very little rainfall like California. - Nearly all pollinators like bees and butterflies seem to love Penstemons! - They'll also attract beneficial predatory insects to the garden helping to defend against bad creatures like aphids, thrips, whiteflies etc... - Just remove the spent flower before the seed pods develop and your plant will excel for you!