Plant Patent #18,885. Add a touch of the exotic to your sunny perennial border or your favorite containers with this highly distinctive and unique Korean cultivar. Large pink buds shaped like Japanese lanterns burst into pendulous blooms with long, slender, widely spaced petals. As the flowers mature, the blooms spread wider and wider, until the bloom is flat and its "tentacles" have reached as far apart as possible!
'Pink Octopus' is an early to midsummer bloomer, adaptable to many soils and quite easy to grow. At 10 inches high (when not in flower) and 18 inches wide, it is compact enough for containers, but it makes a big impact in the border as well. Nothing compares to the texture of these blooms! Hummingbirds find them irresistible, and deer tend to leave the entire plant alone — the perfect combination.
This perennial is quite long-blooming, particularly if the flowers are deadheaded promptly. It needs a period of dormancy before flowering, but will return for many years to amaze guests and inspire double-takes in garden and containers. Zones 5-9.
