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 ...

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