If you're looking for a hummingbird-attracting flower that's a bit more unique than the common recommendations, this ...

During the summer season, there seems to be an endless array of garden plants that you can have in the garden. Like the stars ...

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 ...

Penstemon, also known as beardtongue (because one of its five stamens is infertile and looks different than the others, resembling a hairy tongue surrounded by a lip-shaped flower), is a perennial ...

When I moved to Grass Valley in 1992, I bought a house, which was surrounded by two acres of old overgrown manzanita. A fire trap to be sure. After hiring a brush-clearing firm, I was left with an ...

* What it is: Penstemon is a large family of summer-blooming perennials with tubular flowers that comes in assorted colors. The penstemon family comes in a variety of sizes – ranging from short ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Native Plant Society of Oregon submitted a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the tall western penstemon (Penstemon ...