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Definition of penstemon in English: penstemon(also pentstemon) noun ˈpɛnstəmənpɛnˈstiːmənpenˈstēmən A North American plant with stems of showy flowers resembling snapdragons. Genus Penstemon, family Scrophulariaceae Example sentencesExamples - Another good reason to choose the penstemon is that it also attracts the beautiful hummingbird!
- With protection, annual vegetables and flowers thrive, as do wind-tolerant perennials like buckwheats, grasses, and penstemons.
- In fact, some are already blooming, such as my lavender and white penstemons, the dazzling pink and scarlet dianthus, and fragrant navy blue heliotrope.
- These might include shasta daisies, penstemon and physostegia.
- If perennials like agapanthus, candytuft, coreopsis, daylilies, and penstemon are overgrown or not flowering well, it's time to dig and divide them.
- To attract them to your home, plant red flowers that bloom early, such as red penstemon to serve as a beacon of refuge.
- Take heel cuttings from ceanothus, penstemons, lavenders, santolinas and philadelphus.
- Seeds of most hardy perennials - including bleeding heart, butterfly weed, columbine, delphinium, liatris, and penstemon - require a period of chilling to germinate.
- When can I divide an overgrown penstemon and take some cuttings?
- They hang from the penstemon blossoms like emerald-throated fruits.
- All very well is the advice to cut back decaying and gone-over plants, but my penstemons, rudbeckia, etc are still nice and green.
- In the front is a meadow of native sedge and penstemons, set near a small recirculating stream.
- In the beds, rich red and pink penstemons are flowering well as are the dahlias.
- Cottage gardens usually look their best in early summer, but do include plants that peak at different seasons such as early bulbs, wallflowers and violas for spring, plus penstemons, fuchsias and asters which flower into autumn.
- Aside from irises, no garden flower can boast the color range that penstemons offer.
- From mid-June through July, you should see profuse wildflowers, from the dainty, lavender pasque flowers to penstemons in shades of blue and purple.
- Although quite hardy, it is best to give penstemons winter protection with thick mulch and as extra insurance, to take a few summer cuttings.
- Pink and purple penstemons decorate the outer edges of this sunny bed, with coreopsis and yarrow filling the spaces in between.
- The best choices include abutilon, agastache, alstroemeria, bee balm, cestrum, cleome, coral bells, fuchsia, honeysuckle, lion's tail, penstemon, red-flowered perennial lobelia, salvia, and zauschneria.
- Some native bees and native plants, including penstemon and salvia, are literally made for each other.
Origin Modern Latin, formed irregularly from penta- 'five' + Greek stēmōn 'warp', used to mean 'stamen'. Definition of penstemon in US English: penstemon(also pentstemon) nounpenˈstēmən another term for beardtongue Example sentencesExamples - Seeds of most hardy perennials - including bleeding heart, butterfly weed, columbine, delphinium, liatris, and penstemon - require a period of chilling to germinate.
- All very well is the advice to cut back decaying and gone-over plants, but my penstemons, rudbeckia, etc are still nice and green.
- If perennials like agapanthus, candytuft, coreopsis, daylilies, and penstemon are overgrown or not flowering well, it's time to dig and divide them.
- Cottage gardens usually look their best in early summer, but do include plants that peak at different seasons such as early bulbs, wallflowers and violas for spring, plus penstemons, fuchsias and asters which flower into autumn.
- Another good reason to choose the penstemon is that it also attracts the beautiful hummingbird!
- Although quite hardy, it is best to give penstemons winter protection with thick mulch and as extra insurance, to take a few summer cuttings.
- In fact, some are already blooming, such as my lavender and white penstemons, the dazzling pink and scarlet dianthus, and fragrant navy blue heliotrope.
- Pink and purple penstemons decorate the outer edges of this sunny bed, with coreopsis and yarrow filling the spaces in between.
- In the front is a meadow of native sedge and penstemons, set near a small recirculating stream.
- From mid-June through July, you should see profuse wildflowers, from the dainty, lavender pasque flowers to penstemons in shades of blue and purple.
- The best choices include abutilon, agastache, alstroemeria, bee balm, cestrum, cleome, coral bells, fuchsia, honeysuckle, lion's tail, penstemon, red-flowered perennial lobelia, salvia, and zauschneria.
- These might include shasta daisies, penstemon and physostegia.
- With protection, annual vegetables and flowers thrive, as do wind-tolerant perennials like buckwheats, grasses, and penstemons.
- They hang from the penstemon blossoms like emerald-throated fruits.
- When can I divide an overgrown penstemon and take some cuttings?
- To attract them to your home, plant red flowers that bloom early, such as red penstemon to serve as a beacon of refuge.
- Take heel cuttings from ceanothus, penstemons, lavenders, santolinas and philadelphus.
- Some native bees and native plants, including penstemon and salvia, are literally made for each other.
- In the beds, rich red and pink penstemons are flowering well as are the dahlias.
- Aside from irises, no garden flower can boast the color range that penstemons offer.
Origin Modern Latin, formed irregularly from penta- ‘five’ + Greek stēmōn ‘warp’, used to mean ‘stamen’. |