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Key characteristics

Family: Lamiaceae
Height: 1 to 2 feet
Width: 1 to 2 feet
Flower color: Bright pink flowers
Foliage color: Dark green lance-shaped leaves
Bloom time: Late spring to fall
Light: Full sun to part shade
Water: Moderate
Maintenance: Low
Growing zone: USDA Hardiness Zones 5 - 9
Wildlife: Attracts pollinators such as bees and butterflies due to its nectar-rich flowers

Perennials

Gaura lindheimeri ‘Bantam Pink’

Bantam Pink Wandflower

Gaura lindheimeri 'Bantam Pink' is a wandflower cultivar, known for its compact growth, delicate appearance and charming, butterfly-attracting flowers. With lance-shaped green leaves and an upright to slightly arching habit, it forms clumps of foliage on wiry burgundy-colored stems. The plant's most distinctive feature is its wand-like spikes of small, four-petaled flowers in dark pink, held on slender stems that sway gracefully in the breeze.

Light

Full sun to part shade

Water

Moderate

Bloom time

Late spring to fall

Find this plant

Works well in

Borders
Cottage Gardens
Pollinator Gardens
Containers

Companion plants

Bleeding hearts · Catmint · Heucheras · Lady's mantle · Hellebores · Hardy geraniums

Design tip

Late flowers extend the season, so set it behind or beside plants that finish in midsummer. Because it is easy about light, use it to carry a planting from a sunny end of the bed into the shadier side.

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