Flowering stems of firecracker penstemon pop with color and add a burst of red flowers to landscapes in summer. Firecracker penstemon (Penstemon eatonii) is just one of about 270 species of penstemon, ...

When in bloom, firecracker penstemon more than lives up to its name. Its showy spikes of fiery red tubular flowers are pollinated by, and an important nectar source for, migrating and nesting ...

Don't miss the Springs Preserve's first plant sale, where you can choose from more than 100 species and more than 7,000 vibrant and colorful Mojave Desert-adapted plants. It is your chance to fill ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Twenty Penstemon eatonii seed collections from a range of habitats were subjected to laboratory chill treatments of 0 to 24 weeks. Germination ...

Noelle Johnson moved from coastal California to the desert in 1986, and everything she planted in her new garden died. She wasn't used to the extremes of Arizona's hot and dry climate and neither were ...

BOISE, Idaho — With Idaho facing low-water issues, one way to celebrate Earth Day on Friday is by finding ways to save water in your home landscapes. Recent rain and snow throughout southern Idaho has ...

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 ...

Among the best groups of flowering perennials for desert landscapes are the spring-flowering penstemons. Penstemons are native throughout North America. Although the number of species is greatest for ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The effects of fire and pocket gophers, Geomys bursarius, on the survivorship of Penstemon grandiflorus growing in an oak woodland in ...