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, ...

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 ...

Penstemons are one of the most useful and long-flowering of our garden plants: they hold no fascination for slugs, they shrug off the depredations of both drought and rain, and they are pretty happy ...

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 ...

With growing interest in more sustainable gardening practices, gardeners are looking for plants that are more adaptable to our climate and require less water, fertilizer and maintenance. In many cases ...

VAIL — Betty Ford Alpine Gardens has partnered with Bureau of Land Management to grow and reintroduce one of the rarest plants in North America — the Penstemon debilis — onto the Roan Plateau near ...

LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity today petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect a rare desert wildflower under the Endangered Species Act. The white-margined penstemon ...