Pretty In Pink Lungwort
Pulmonaria 'Pretty In Pink'
Walter's Gardens
A low mounding perennial presenting dark green lance-shaped leaves with silver spots, and rose pink flowers in spring that tend to stay pink as they age; an attractive accent plant or impressive underplanting for wooded areas
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Pretty In Pink Lungwort is an herbaceous perennial with a mounded form. Its medium texture blends into the garden | but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Pretty In Pink Lungwort features delicate clusters of rose bell-shaped flowers with pink overtones at the ends of the stems in late spring | which emerge from distinctive pink flower buds. Its attractive narrow leaves remain dark green in color with distinctive silver spots throughout the season.
Planting and Growing
Pretty In Pink Lungwort will grow to be about 14 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 24 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant | individual plants should be spaced approximately 18 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground | not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an herbaceous perennial | this plant will usually die back to the crown each winter | and will regrow from the base each spring. Be careful not to disturb the crown in late winter when it may not be readily seen!
This plant does best in partial shade to shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
Plant Facts
Prefers partial shade to shade
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 16"Hx24"W
Flowers are rose
Flowers in late spring
Zone 4a
Likes average to moist soil