Once you start a pollinator garden, it can become addictive. Finding new plants to keep hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, and other pollinators flocking to your yard becomes a mission. So, you will ...

We live in a good area for native color. It doesn’t necessarily blanket the hillsides, but it’s there when you look for it. The combination of climate and geography seem to give us a more favorable ...

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 ...

I was back at my friend Pat’s house this week after seeing her “mini arboretum” last week. This time Pat gave me a guided tour of her plantings. I noticed she had numerous varieties of penstemon. Last ...

BASALT ” They’re baacckk! After one of the longest, wettest winters in memory, the wildflowers have finally arrived, about three weeks later than usual but looking, at least in some cases, better than ...

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