| As I watch, a humming bird stops in midair and turns its attention to the wooly bluecurls and the showy penstemon. |
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| Many kinds can go into the ground now, including asters, chrysanthemums, diascia, gaura, geranium, geum, and penstemon. |
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| Mine flowered a little later this year but is still going strong, having outlived the penstemon and erigeron it is planted with. |
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| Another good reason to choose the penstemon is that it also attracts the beautiful hummingbird! |
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| Set out transplants of campanula, candytuft, catmint, coreopsis, delphinium, dianthus, foxglove, penstemon, phlox, salvia, and yarrow. |
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| Some native bees and native plants, including penstemon and salvia, are literally made for each other. |
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| To attract them to your home, plant red flowers that bloom early, such as red penstemon to serve as a beacon of refuge. |
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| When can I divide an overgrown penstemon and take some cuttings? |
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| Vivid pink roses lead the eye through the border, while butterfly bush, Mexican sage, and penstemon add bursts of soft purple blooms here and there. |
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| Beneath the dead trees, the forest floor is awash in fresh grasses and sporadic thick blooms of lupine, arnica, penstemon, and other wild flowers. |
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| They hang from the penstemon blossoms like emerald-throated fruits. |
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| These might include shasta daisies, penstemon and physostegia. |
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| If perennials like agapanthus, candytuft, coreopsis, daylilies, and penstemon are overgrown or not flowering well, it's time to dig and divide them. |
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| Plants chosen for drought tolerance as well as color thrive here, including catmint, ceanothus, lychnis, penstemon, purple coneflower, rockrose, rosemary, and star jasmine. |
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| Cercospora infection was widespread among blowout penstemon plants in 2005, especially among inflorescences compared to vegetative shoots. |
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| If perennials like coreopsis, daylilies, and penstemon are overgrown or not flowering well, dig and divide them. |
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| If the space is sunny, plant a mix of vibrant perennials such as catmint, lavender, lion's tail, penstemon, and Santa Barbara daisy. |
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| These include achillea, potentilla, red hot pokers, bergenia, penstemon, geranium, zantedeschia and crocosmia. |
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| But the most widely-grown penstemon are those popularised in the Victorian era and a host of new cultivars bred since. |
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| Sparkling Burgundy Pots of gold BIG pots on our front terrace are the new home for some of the penstemon plants I've written about right. |
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| Hayloft's first penstemon catalogue offers the largest selection of varieties I have ever seen. |
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| Many perennials are making or preparing to make their show, including shasta daisy, liatris, penstemon, salvia and astilbe. |
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| My vision was a cabin in the whispering pines, a brook trout stream out back, a field of penstemon and larkspur for the dogs, and a snowy peak to fill the picture window. |
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| Plants such as native salvia, native golden currants, penstemon, ceanothus, California fuchsia and Oregon grapes are magnets for hummingbirds, she says. |
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| The single Penstemon strictus plant observed by Williams and Thomson received bumblebee visits every few minutes. |
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| The Penstemon Website is a great place to go if you're interested in beardtongues either for enjoyment or gardening. |
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| He knows of 15 members of the genus Penstemon that rely on hummingbirds and may have evolved this reliance independently of one another. |
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| Penstemon seed, for example, can be lightly scattered over the surface of a tray of damp compost and covered with a thin layer of compost or vermiculite. |
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| Penstemon belong to the family scrophulariaceae, which all seem to be detested by slugs and snails. |
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| Start collecting tokens today for Viola, Penstemon, Antirrhinum, Verbena, Potentilla, Geum, Rudbeckia, Dianthus, Morning Glory and Poppy. |
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| Scrophulariaceae Penstemon Foxglove Robertson 1929 digitalis beardtongue Nutt. |
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| Penstemon x gloxinioides Fine with salvias, lavenders, gaura, and 'Apple Blossom' other drought-tolerant perennials. |
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