As you look through plant catalogs for flower garden ideas this spring, please consider species from two of my favorite genera, penstemon and salvia. These plants appeal to me because they have ...

Some plants are celebrated in poetry, prose and song. Some give us (mostly girls’) names. Some are adopted as emblems and treasured for their symbolism. And then some just get on with it. The salvias ...

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