Gaura Lindheimeri is a short lived perennial herbaceous plant growing to 18″-36″ tall from an underground rhizome. Gaura can be treated as a half hardy annual grown from seed and planted out  in mid summer. The plant has an AGM.

Growing Gaura Lindheimeri

• Gaura is a plant from the prairie and likes a dry sun baked soil.
• Gaura need space but looks light and airy when flowering after August.
• The pinky-white flowers clustering on thin hairy stems.
• Flowers go on appearing for months and  do not need dead-heading.
• Try the slightly smaller deep-pink form, ‘Siskiyou Pink’ which has stems that are crimson or Cherry Brandy, The Bride Summer Breeze or other named varieties.
• ‘Corrie’s Gold’ is another Gaura with a gold leaf and white flower.
• Young plants need to be regularly pinched out to make bushy plants.
• Mature Gauras do not move well.
• Gaura Whirling Butterflies has slender stems and leaves are grey-green with ocassional black spots. The multitude of flowers dance above the plant like a host of butterflies when the breeze catches them.