Garden centers typically display plants by their types – trees, shrubs, perennials, vegetables, and so on. Gardeners, on the other hand, aren’t always looking for particular plants or plant types.

Plants with dark eggplant-purple foliage ... Pineleaf beardtongue (Penstemon pinifolius), a dwarf plant with needlelike foliage and citrus-colored blooms, thrives in hot, challenging, less ...

White flowers tend to be pollinated by moths, blue and purple by bees and wasps, and red (such as the Firecracker Penstemon) by hummingbirds. Penstemon harringtonii petals range in color from pinkish ...

Upon closer inspection, the two exerted stamens confirm it is, indeed, a Harrington’s. This half-foot-tall hyper-color purple penstemon is uniquely endemic to Eagle and surrounding counties. I love ...

The tall western penstemon is part of a genus of plants commonly known as “beardtongues.” Its vivid purple-blue flowers, perched high atop its unusually long stems, make a distinctive and beautiful ...