Monthly Archives: June 2012

hardy Californians….I hope

Posted on June 11, 2012 by paridevita

At the Mother’s Day plant sale at DBG, there were an awful lot of unusual plants calling to me in their plant-like ways. After I got a cart because my cardboard flats wouldn’t hold everything I wanted (the cart wouldn’t … Continue reading →

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from the prairies

Posted on June 11, 2012 by paridevita

This is Penstemon cobaea, the largest flowered of all the penstemons. According to Pennell in Scrophulariaceae of Eastern Temperate North America (which everyone not paid by the word refers to as SETNA), Nuttall, in his journey to “the Arkansas Territory”, found this species growing … Continue reading →

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