Petey loves the native milkweeds and like it or not you’re gonna hear about it.
No matter where you like in Baja Arizona you will find some species of Asclepias growing near you. So from Yuma or Ajo to the top of a sky island you will find a milkweed of some sort. How cool is that? Very cool! And you need some milkweeds in your pollinator garden so go to your favorite nursery and ask about native milkweeds. Better get a few. Good job.
Petey babbles on about the southern sun, long shadows, kinetic art in the house and finally a small primrose. Whew! Oenothera primiveris seems a...
Petey talks about some unintentional seed collecting and also of a favorite native grass called giant sacaton whose seed he didn’t get to in...
The photos are mine and of the plant Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum. It sure is nice to have some white flowers mixed in with the oceans...