This perennial bloom is beautiful, low-maintenance, and a great source of food for hummingbirds. Here's how to incorporate ...

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 ...

Want more hummingbirds? Grow these plants! Birds & Blooms readers share the blooming plants that hummingbirds love most in ...

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, ...

Garden borders bursting with colour can still stay eerily quiet, with no hummingbirds in sight. This electric blue penstemon promises a buzzing summer display—unless you make one simple mistake. Many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...