Painted tongue

Try something a little different in your garden this year with painted tongue. It's a dazzling plant with trumpet-shaped blooms available in many colors. Exotic-looking bicolor varieties are threaded with bold vein patterns. It thrives during milder spring and fall temperatures, and may rest during the summer heat.

Light:

Sun,Part Sun

Plant Type:

Annual

Plant Height:

2 feet tall

Plant Width:

1 foot wide

Landscape Uses:

Containers,Beds & Borders

Special Features:

Flowers

Top Varieties

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Casino Black painted tongue

(Salpiglossis 'Casino Black') offers rich, dark purple-red flowers in summer on compact, 2-foot-tall plants.
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Kew Blue painted tongue

(Salpiglossis 'Kew Blue') offers rich and velvety, blue-purple flowers in summer. It grows 3 feet tall.
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Plant It With

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Flowering kale

Pink and burgundy varieties of painted tongue are stunning when planted with ornamental kale.

Pansy

Tuck pansies in front of painted tongue for a colorful early spring display.

Snapdragon

Snapdragon mixes bloom in nearly every color of painted tongue, and the flower contrasts are striking.

Propagation

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Seed