Penstemon multicaulis Orixa The small rounded half-dollar-sized leaves

The small rounded half-dollar-sized leaves are dark green but heavily mottled with dramatic silver venation

Hymenocallis 'Superstar' is a 2009 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction of a plant we received in a shipment of "Mexican mixed crinums" from south of the border

Juniper Level Botanic Garden has one of the largest and most complete collections of spring-flowering natives so there's no better location for learning them and the conditions that will lead to success with them in your home garden

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Penstemon multicaulis Orixa The small rounded half-dollar-sized leavesPenstemon multicaulis is an outstanding, albeit virtually unknown, garden perennial that hails from the midwest region between Indiana and Oklahoma, where it grows on rocky soils, crevices and shale barrens. Some taxonomists lump it with the very similar Penstemon arkansanus, except it is a woodland plant with fewer flowering stems. Our plant has thrived in our un irrigated full sun crevice garden since 2017. Starting for us in late April, the 18"