Penstemons are easy to grow. They’re beautiful. Critters and bugs don’t like them, and they don’t need much water. What more could you ask for? Well, a longer flowering season, but we can’t have ...

Every spring, I get giddy at the first sight of color that isn’t the white or brown of mud season. I know that each year, the abundance and beauty of wildflowers in this region will continuously ...

There is nothing simple, or cut and dried, when it comes to growing plants. Much of becoming a so-called plant expert is knowing the regional climate, soil type, and the most likely growing ...

Q. I read an article about Penstemon laxiflorus, a foxglove native to the Texas coast. I've never had luck growing the foxglove available in local nurseries. Do you know where I could find this plant ...

I was back at my friend Pat’s house this week after seeing her “mini arboretum” last week. This time Pat gave me a guided tour of her plantings. I noticed she had numerous varieties of penstemon. Last ...

It rose out of a gap in the curb next to a storm drain on Sunrise at the Palm Springs Library corner. Every day I drove by the stalk got taller and taller until it was nearly three feet. That's when ...

Every other week, the East Bay Municipal Utility District features plants particularly well-suited to California’s summer-dry climate and adapted to periods of drought. IT’S EASY TO SEE why penstemons ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The effects of fire and pocket gophers, Geomys bursarius, on the survivorship of Penstemon grandiflorus growing in an oak woodland in ...

Penstemons have been valued for centuries, but it's only in recent decades that they've become more widely planted in Iowa gardens. Their common name is beardtongues because of the often-hairy stamen ...

August is not the garden's finest month, so it needs all the help it can get. Which is why penstemons are so valuable now: they lift the garden with their non-stop flowers at a drab and lacklustre ...

Penstemons are among the most delightfully friendly plants of the spring garden; their nodding, bugle-shaped blooms announce that the peak time for flowering in Southern California gardens has arrived ...