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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

While roses are red, and violets are blue, how exactly do flower colors change? In the case of penstemons, with over 200 species to choose from, scientists have now shown that turning their flowers ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday announced its decision to list three rare wildflowers native to western Colorado as threatened or endangered species. They include ...