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...
Mentzelia pumila is in the family Loasaceae. Kearny and Peebles in Arizona Flora note that “the family is remarkable for the diversity and peculiar...
The scientific name of the ringtail is Bassariscus astutus. It’s in the Procyonidae, the same family as our local borderlands’ critters the raccoons and...
