Penstemon Visitor wildflowers A native wildflower garden along

A native wildflower garden along the front range of the Rocky Mountains delivers beauty as well as habitat for birds and pollinators throughout the year

From mid-April through June

a Woodhouse toad hides in the shadows as  a swallowtail butterfly

Names along the bottom of the painting

Penstemon Visitor wildflowers A native wildflower garden alongBroad tailed hummingbird visiting a firecracker penstemon (Penstemon eatonii). All penstemon species delight me with their bright flowers and the variety of pollinators they attract, but I love to have firecracker penstemon around mainly because this plants bright red flowers bloom in late spring and early summer just as Broad tailed Hummingbirds are arriving from their wintering areas in Mexico and Central America. Hungry from their long distance