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rickmartin.bsky.social
Penstemon 'Bressingham Purple' 🌱📷

#FlowersOnFriday #PurpleFriday
#bloomscrolling
Purple trumpet shaped penstamon flowers
January 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
factsnotfiction.bsky.social
This is why the call it beardtongue (Penstamon)

#CaliforniaNativePlants
#NativePlants
#PollinatorGarden
April 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
factsnotfiction.bsky.social
New blooms today.

Toyon (1st. 3rd year), CA Goldenrod, showy penstamon, margarita bop penstamon

#CaliforniaNativePlants
Toyon flower CA goldenrod flower Showy penstmon flowers Margarita bop penstamon flowers
April 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
gardeningkristi.bsky.social
Bee butts, bee tongues, and Penstemon digitalis (Foxglove Beardtongue) - a sight I look forward to all spring. 🌱 #nativeplants
A Bumble Bee with a little pollen in the scopa is head first in a white Penstamon flower. White Penstemon flowers bloom in a drift in a suburban backyard. White Penstamon flowers bloom near a patio in a backyard. A Bumble Bee is visiting a white Penstamon flower. You can see the tongue of the bee in this photo.
June 4, 2026 at 9:49 AM
ellenmartist.bsky.social
Bee 🐝 in the #PenstemonDigitalis
#FoxgloveBeardtongue
#gardening #NativePlants #bees #bloomscrolling
Bee in the penstamon
June 30, 2025 at 12:38 AM
rexxwolfe.bsky.social
looks like a penstamon of some kind very pretty.
July 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
factsnotfiction.bsky.social
Today in my #CaliforniaNativePlants garden

First white sage flower. Pretty California wildrose twins. A mint moth on a birdseed gillia. And a closeup of foothill penstamon flower
White sage flower Two California wildrose Mint moth on birds-eye gillia Foothill penstamon flowers closeup.
April 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
rabbittopia.bsky.social
White into blue 🌱
White Sea holly with blue sea holly and purple salvia in background Big Blue sea holly. Newer blossoms are white Blue penstamon in front of Jack Frost brunnera Blue flowers and white seed heads on borage
November 21, 2024 at 5:38 AM
rabbittopia.bsky.social
🌱 a little slice of the flower beds when their orange game is particularly strong
A corner where two flower beds meet. Yellow columbine near orange roses and sticky monkey bush and cosmos. Purple Spanish lavender and blue penstamon in background and orange oriental poppies
May 14, 2026 at 3:50 AM
ncoastbruin.bsky.social
#flowersonfriday
#bloomscrolling
#penstamon
#thegentlegarden
#macroview
July 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
honeygirlgrows.bsky.social
For your nervous system nature bath: some gorgeous wild Humboldt lilies, manzanita bark and feverfew. I also saw fleabane, scarlet bugler penstamon, Russian sage, Spanish broom, wild sweet peas, vetch, desert woolystars, and a deer, turtle, and bobcat. 🌱
Orange spotted with dark red lilies with pollen parts hanging upside down Lime green trunk with dark maroon peel of manzanita bark Wild feverfew looks like tiny white flowers with yellow middles, green lacy leaves
July 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
rabbittopia.bsky.social
Blue into purple 🌱
Big blue sea holly, purple salvia, purple balloon flower Blue Veronica, blue sea holly, purple salvia Purple/blue columbine and bugleweed Blue honeywort and purple penstamon
November 21, 2024 at 7:23 AM
nico2lette.bsky.social
Planted out the grown up cuttings of penstamon in bed …ready to bloom. In memory of Geoff Hamilton, Gardeners World.
I’ve touched his compost bins at @barnsdalegardens.bsky.social many moons ago.
He taught us so much. 🌱
April 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
erinleeryan.bsky.social
We finally look like we have a wildflower cottage garden growing on our slope-y front yard. 🌱
A side view of our sloped front yard (high on the left, low on the right). Plants in bloom include a red yarrow in the foreground, dainty salmon colored agastache dotting the uphil, and downhill yellow blooms of a milkweed hyrbrid as well as echinacea and some reddish pink blooms of penstamon.
June 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
bike4evr.myatproto.social
Today is a great day to post flower photos:
#FlowerReport
Purple penstamon (Penstamon whippleanus). A red-purple tubular flower with 3 lower lobes and two upper lobes. Often called beardstongue because of hairs on the lower lobes. Jacob’s ladder, maybe Polemonium pulcherrimum (?). Light blue-purple 5-petal flowers with exerted stigma with pjnnately compound leaves. The best match in “Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains” is Polemonium foliosissimum. Either way, it’s definitely Jacob’s ladder. I have a Jacob’s ladder in my yard, absolutely love it.
July 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
publiclandlvr.bsky.social
Of course, they are all my faves, but Penstemon is my fave among faves. DYK they will flourish above 10K feet?

I took this pic near the summit of Mt. Lassen in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Imagine how short the growing season is and yet how important it is to the hummingbirds.

#Bloomscrolling
In the foreground grows a Penstamon bush absolutely full of purple, full blooms. In the background you can see a hiking trail and further off in the distance, forest and other peaks making it clear that this photo is taken from a very high elevation. The sky is blue and clear of clouds.
April 8, 2025 at 3:45 AM
mjm314.bsky.social
I found out this week that we have a groundhog living under our shed. It seems to prefer the tops of sunflowers and penstamon flowers, so far.☹️
May 18, 2026 at 7:53 PM
pavlovcat.myatproto.social
to people, not insects. That lovely purple leafed penstamon in my flower garden likely can't be used as a host plant because the purple leaves do not have the same nutritional content for insects as the native green leaved variety.

This type of thing can have devastating effects if the plant
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
ashincorn.bsky.social
#bloomscroll 2 electric boogaloo #nativeplants
An early pop of white penstamon digitalis with dark reddish leaves. I'm about to have a sea of this blooming. Ohio spiderwort, dark indigo blooms on long, blade-like green leaves.
May 31, 2026 at 6:49 PM
pavlovcat.myatproto.social
highly versatile but some are pickier about where they grow.

Be aware too of cultivars of native plants. That was a mistake I made when I first started getting interested in native plants. I purchased several cultivars of things like aster and penstamon but cultivars are bred to be more pleasing
November 19, 2024 at 6:51 PM
kzgrant.bsky.social
🌱Right?! Ours insists on being out bc squirrels and chipmunks and bees need chasing. Have to set a timer and insist she comes in. Takes her #GardenDogs job seriously.
Hot little black and white dog insists on patrolling garden ONE MORE TIME before coming in from the heat. Yellow Cutleaf Coreopsis and white Penstamon flowers in background next to black trellis and small fences.
June 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
fedtfupofthemall.bsky.social
I think it’s actually penstamon? It grows wild up here okc
March 27, 2026 at 6:57 AM
e2dutch.bsky.social
336. Tucson, Arizona. Cactus. Flowers. Parry's Penstamon. Beardtongue. Saguaro. Travel.
#PhotographersUnited
Day 336 of 1460.
Daily photo to get through this era. Some days/photos will be better than others. I'd love to see your photos in my replies.
December 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
mjm314.bsky.social
#GardenSunday
A common eastern bombus backing out of a Penstamon digitalis bloom.
June 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
androidgenious.bsky.social
Making plans for Memorial Day weekend.
Rear view of Beans the tabby cat and Stephanie the tuxedo cat, lying on the wood sleeping platform in their dog crate catio as they survey their kingdom, AKA my back yard. It's not their best angle because they both look like furry butternut squash, but I don't think they care; they just love being outside. The 'Husker Red' penstamon is blooming, but too far away for them to see the fat bumblebees. I think they're making plans for our four-day weekend. If they aren't, I certainly am!
May 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM