Soft, glowing, and beautifully long-blooming, Penstemon 'Aurora' brings luminous tubular flowers and graceful upright growth to sunny gardens. This easy-care perennial is a wonderful choice for pollinator gardens, cottage borders, mixed perennial beds, and water-wise landscapes where color, movement, and wildlife value are all welcome. With its showy blooms and relaxed garden presence, Penstemon 'Aurora' adds a fresh, elegant note to the warm-season garden. 

Growing into a tidy, upright clump, Penstemon 'Aurora' fits beautifully among sun-loving perennials, California native plants, ornamental grasses, and other drought-tolerant garden favorites. Its nectar-rich flowers attract hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, and beneficial insects, making it especially useful in wildlife-friendly plantings. Pair it with salvias, yarrow, lavender, buckwheats, gaura, catmint, verbena, and silver foliage for a layered, pollinator-friendly garden display with plenty of texture and seasonal color.

Plant Penstemon 'Aurora' in full sun with well-drained soil and low to moderate water once established. Deadhead spent flowers to encourage a tidy appearance and continued bloom, and avoid overly rich or soggy soil for best performance. Colorful, resilient, and wonderfully useful to pollinators, this long-blooming Penstemon is a beautiful addition to sunny borders and habitat gardens. Explore more long-lasting favorites in our Perennials & Biennials collection.

We guarantee that the plants we sell are healthy and viable at the time they leave our care.

If a plant arrives in substandard condition, please take clear photographs and contact us within 48 hours of delivery. To ensure eligibility under this guarantee, we strongly encourage you to open and unpack your shipment immediately upon delivery and inspect the plants thoroughly.

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$14.99 flat rate for up to 6 plants is for standard FedEx/UPS Ground shipping to eligible states only. $19.99 for up to 12 plants. Plants being shipped to the following states are sent via Express Mail to help ensure they arrive quickly and healthy. 

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Individual plants are shipped in 4" pots and we ship in boxes of 4, 6, 8, or 12 plants per box.

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