Hello! I have a mystery flower growing in my back garden. It blooms late summer (photo is from last summer). It is a beautiful flower and a pale pink colour. It looks so similar to a foxglove and some have said lupine, but I am sure it is neither. Does anyone know what kind of flower this is? Please help!
Click on the blue link below..... Physostegia virginiana (False Dragonhead, Obedient Plant) They are very sturdy plants and will re-seed easily.
Thank you SO much Toni! This has been driving my mother and I a bit insane for the last week! Haha. I also wasn't sure if they were perennials or just reseeding very well but now I know! Thanks again.
You are welcome. Mine were given to me 2 years ago by a friend and what started as a few here and there has grown into a good sized patch of them....looks like the Monarda and some Echinacea will have to be moved next Spring and some of the pushy ones will be moved to the back garden.
Oh wow! For being an obedient flower they sure are dominant in the garden. I have hosta hiding somewhere amongst them as well. I would try to thin them out but they're just so beautiful and easy to care for!
It gets the common name Obedient plant because you can gently bend the flower and it will stay that way instead of popping back straight or breaking. Nothing else much obedient about it though.
Obedient Plant is lovely, but anything BUT obedient! Do make sure to keep it in check by pulling any that are invading other plants, and spreading too far. It would take over your entire garden if you let it!
Wish it would do that here. Tried if a few times and it has never even flowered once before dying off.
