(Purple Fountaingrass)

The dwarf 'Red Riding Hood' is a tender ornamental grass suitable for containers, rock gardens and borders. This drought tolerant fountaingrass and broad burgundy blades and feathery rosy plumes.

Elegant and tough, fountaingrass is an attractive warm-season perennial to tender perennial. It originates from the warm regions in the Mediterranean, Africa, and southwest Asia. This popular ornamental grass forms graceful, arching clumps. From midsummer to fall, it produces many grassy floral plumes....

(Dwarf Crimson Fountaingrass, Purple Fountaingrass)

The compact 'Rubrum Compactum' is a tender ornamental grass suitable for containers, rock gardens and borders. It is drought tolerant and has burgundy-red blades and feathery rosy plumes that look beautiful with warm and cool colored annuals and perennials.

Elegant and tough, fountaingrass is an attractive warm-season perennial to tender perennial. It originates from the warm regions in the Mediterranean, Africa, and southwest Asia. This popular ornamental grass forms graceful, arching clumps....

(Villous Fountaingrass)

Villous fountaingrass is a tender perennial ornamental grass usually grown as an annual. In summer to early autumn, feathery cream flower heads emerge from clumps of bright green, arching foliage. This deciduous grass is native to the mountains of tropical Africa, where it bakes in full sun.

Grow this medium-sized grass in moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil in full sun. Where it overwinters, cut back the dead top growth in early spring. Villous fountaingrass often self-sows prolifically...

(Hybrid Beardtongue)

This award winning luscious pink perennial is one of the most proven of the penstemon hybrids. One of the so-called border penstemons – a group of large-flowered, long-blooming hybrids whose lineage includes several Mexican species and one from the Midwest United States – it bears branching clusters of chubby trumpet-shaped flowers with pink exteriors and lips and white throats. Bloom continues from early summer to fall. The flowers arise from a shrubby base furnished with lance-shaped evergreen...

(Hybrid Beardtongue)

The vivid rose-pink, white-throated flowers of this recently introduced herbaceous perennial are a hot item in the garden. One of the so-called border penstemons – a group of large-flowered, long-blooming hybrids whose lineage includes numerous species – 'Cathedral Rose Hot' bears clusters of chubby trumpet-shaped flowers from late spring into summer. The compact flower stems arise from a shrubby base furnished with glossy lance-shaped evergreen leaves.

This beautiful perennial likes sun and...

(Hybrid Beardtongue)

Tiny, with more floriferous nature makes this compact form a better plant for small gardens than its parent, Penstemon ‘Pink Chablis’. Bred in Oregon, it is derived from the Canadian Saskatoon hybrids which resulted from crosses of Penstemon barbatus and a handful of other species which contribute both drought and moisture tolerance. This variety is particularly useful in the Northwest where excessive winter rains cause many penstemons to suffer root rot.

The beautiful coral...

(Hybrid Beardtongue)

This variety offers smaller size and a more floriferous nature than its parent, the purple flowered hybrid ‘Sour Grapes’. All are derived from complex breeding of Mexican species with one Midwestern American native to create varieties of great size, generous flowers and an improved tolerance for summer rain. Although this smaller form shares a good deal of drought resistance, it is more importantly moisture tolerant expanding its use to new locations. Though it is not picky as to soil fertility or...

(Dark Towers Beardtongue, Hybrid Beardtongue)

This stunning purple foliage variety is rewriting the book on what to expect from perennials in the garden. It is a cultivar developed by Terra Nova Nurseries in Oregon where some of the most innovatively colored new cultivars are being produced. Penstemon foliage has previously been of minimal interest, but with the dark purple leaf form it makes these plants far more valuable before and after blooms.

Bright pink midsummer flowers are abundant but not particularly large. This is of little...

(Hybrid Beardtongue)

The large abundant bright red blossoms of this tall sturdy herbaceous perennial will lure hummingbirds in droves. One of the so-called border penstemons – a group of large-flowered, long-blooming hybrids whose lineage includes several Mexican species and one from the Midwest United States – 'Firebird' (also known as 'Schönholzeri') bears clusters of chubby trumpet-shaped flowers from late spring into summer. The thigh-high flower stems arise from a shrubby base furnished with glossy narrowly lance-shaped...

(Hybrid Beardtongue)

Resilient, long-lived, and bedecked all summer with quantities of sumptuous purple-red flowers, this is an excellent drought tolerant herbaceous perennial for western gardens. One of the so-called border penstemons – a group of large-flowered, long-blooming hybrids whose lineage includes several Mexican species and one from the Midwest United States – 'Garnet' bears clusters of chubby trumpet-shaped flowers from late spring through summer. The thigh-high flower stems arise from a shrubby base furnished...