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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

PROVO • Brigham Young University professor Mikel Stevens will never forget the day when he stumbled across something that was unlike anything he’d ever seen throughout his passion for plants. Stevens ...

As you look through plant catalogs for flower garden ideas this spring, please consider species from two of my favorite genera, penstemon and salvia. These plants appeal to me because they have ...

Penstemon subgenus Dasanthera is a group of nine species distributed at high elevations in western North America. Hybridization is common in the subgenus when two or more species occur in sympatry. We ...

The White and Pink Falling Penstemon is an ultra-rare flower variant in the Penstemon family in Disney Dreamlight Valley. Only two White and Pink Falling Penstemons can be found within the Plaza at ...