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 ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity today petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect a rare desert wildflower under the Endangered Species Act. The white-margined penstemon ...

IT’S TIME FOR another round of Seattle Grows, a botanical party game (that I made up) where I ask local garden professionals what plant we should all be growing. This time I turned to Marcia Bruno, ...