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How to make your garden bloom

The West's best flowers for borders, beds, bouquets, and containers

8 knock-out native flowers

Invite wildlife into your garden with Western plants chosen for their blooms and berries

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Steven Gunther

Desert beard tongue

(Penstemon pseudospectabilis)
Upright shrub (to 2 to 4 feet tall) that bears pink to purplish flowers spring into summer.

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