Gaura 'Whirling Butterflies'

Let the fluttery flowers of Gaura 'Whirling Butterflies' fill your summer with pure plant joy. Whirling by name and by nature, a mass of upright stems topped with profuse spires of delicate blooms billow in a summer breeze, bringing airy, relaxing movement to your planting scheme. This Lindheimer's beeblossom creates a brilliant contrast among sturdy upright perennials, or is the perfect complement to other hazy plant neighbours like ornamental grasses. Whist the flowers are white, the appearance from afar is a soft pink cloud due to the pink buds which open throughout summer.    

You can enjoy a long season of interest with Gaura lindheimeri 'Whirling Butterflies', which typically starts flowering in early summer and continues to produce new flowers until early autumn. Each year, this perennial will become more bushy and prolific until it reaches its full established size of around 1m. This low-maintenance character (also known as Oenothera lindheimeri 'Whirling Butterflies') is fairly drought tolerant in summer and also winter hardy. It won’t require a lot of your time once established—just chop it down in autumn and in spring it will grow back!