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.
Fall is just a blast with all the late season blooming plants, so maybe instead of a festival for all the different species, we...
Petey gets very excited about the flight of male Horse Lubber grasshoppers.
The botanical name for jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and for clammy weed it’s Polanisia dodecandra. I translate those very cool names in this...