A key shrub for butterflies
If you want to attract butterflies to your landscape you’ll want to have as rich a diversity of native plants as possible, and…
If you want to attract butterflies to your landscape you’ll want to have as rich a diversity of native plants as possible, and…
Most residents of Eastern Washington are familiar with this plant, whether they know it or not. Often growing in rather bare areas or…
Central Washington has some gorgeous species from the Portulacaceae, among them the Western spring beauties (Claytonia lanceolata) that begin the season, the striking…
The first penstemons of the year are beginning to bloom in the nursery beds, with shrubby penstemon (Penstemon fruticosus) starting it off (shown…
For me, that has got to be Tweedy’s lewisia. Known for years as Lewisia tweedyi, it was recently changed to Cistanthe tweedyi, which…