Wildflowers #14: on the ground and in the sky

Palmer's penstemons
(progeny of Renee's and Janet's seeds)

the fourth in the succession of composites

Palmer's penstemon

Wildflowers #13 + Barbed Wire

A couple of new blooms in the yard.


and . . .


Walking along the Spanish Fork River last night, cotton floating down from the cottonwood trees, we came across a barbed-wire fence with red barbs (for visibility?).

red penstemon / Penstemon eatonii ??

Palmer's penstemon / Penstemon palmeri

flax in native bunch grasses

cotton / Populus fremonti

Penstemons

Almost four years ago Janet Cooper and Renee Van Buren (botanists and neighbors) showed up at our front door with a big sack of seeds from their Palmer's penstemons. We planted them on the hill of dirt denuded of natural vegetation by building the house. And now you see their progeny.

Good neighbors.

Good plants.

And what a scent.