Nature duo - Duo of Roses and Penstemons

We offer you this wonderful 'Nature Duo', the meeting between two hardy, vigorous and floriferous plants that are naturally complementary. The carmine pink dog rose flowers of the 'Mozart' rose blend with the purple foliage and exquisite white-pink trumpet flowers of the 'Husker Red' penstemon. This refined little scene adds a touch of charm to even the most modest flower bed, or the most intimate garden. With generosity and simplicity, here is the winning duo to integrate into a wild-looking garden, or to create the structure of a wonderful romantic or English-style flower bed!

This kit consists of:

-1x Bare root Mozart old rose: a worry-free and cheerful shrub rose, with countless small carmine pink wild roses with white centres. This variety forms a diffuse, arched and diverging bush, about 1.5m (5ft) high and 1.3m (4ft) wide, sometimes more depending on growing conditions. Its flowering is very long and continuous, from June-July to October-November. Particularly resistant to diseases and fast-growing, it is perfect as a free-standing hedge, it thrives everywhere, even in mountain gardens.

- 3x 'Husker Red' hybrid Penstemon: a very hardy, vigorous and floriferous perennial with spectacular purple foliage and exquisite trumpet-shaped flowers, white-pink. This graceful beauty forms an erect, bushy clump, measuring 60 to 70cm (24 to 28in) tall, with a spread of about 30 to 50cm (12 to 20in).

Plant this Nature Duo in a sunny flower bed, or in partial shade in the afternoon in our warmer regions. There are plenty of ideas for combinations to create a large flower bed, according to each gardener's taste. You can embellish it with blue bellflowers, Damascus nigellas, Bristol Fairy gypsophila (white) or Rosenschleier gypsophila (pink), place it against the cloud cabbage (Crambe cordifolia) and the 'Powis Castle' shrubby mugwort, in a large English-style flower bed, blooming for months. Also consider the Lychnis coronaria Angel's Blush or viscaria Splendens. In a wilder setting, its combination with certain grasses such as Muhlenbergia capillaris or Eragrostis spectabilis or alchemilla mollis will be superb. Once well established, this sturdy and hardy duo will only require regular pruning to remove faded flowers and pruning in late winter for the rose.