@nmoasis:thankyou: zoe for your info! I will place them right away in full sun, and perhaps after a week or so place them in ground. What I did find with most of my Penstemons....and I have close to about 60 sps. of them, is that they
love leen soil , sharply draining sandy. A few are semi shade species and many are full sun species. Most are at seedling stage or young non blooming plants. I'm now moving ahead in understanding their growth patterns and hope to figure how to place them in the landscape. Some gardeners choose their plants for their display features. I prefer to study a genus that catches my eye and try to grow as many as I can within the genus: i.e Penstemon, Lewisia, Heuchera, Eriogonum ( all from N.America). So a place like Alplains is a fabulous lure to explore for seeds. Some people would define my type as botanically inclined...
Arturo
btw. I have a dear friend from our elementary/high school days in Buenos Aires living very close to Albuquerque in Corrales. He became an accomplished potter/ceramist.
