I know that being in the moment or being here now is important, but I confess to spending a lot of time wanting to be there now and I’ll be happy to be here now once I get there now or very soon.
Penstemon dasyphyllus is an April, May bloomer and the splash of the blue flowers in the grassland is a wonderful surprise. “Whoa, what is that blue?”, you may shout as you stand in a zany mix of grasses and Chihuahuan desert scrub. “I am so here now!”
The photos are mine and of Penstemon dasyphyllus and also of Houstonia rubra. They were taken on a gravelly slope of the Dragoon Mountains not too far from where I work…well, not that day.
I started my career in horticulture spring of 1980 when I got a job as a laborer at a wholesale nursery northwest of Tucson....
Petey jabbers on and on about some native bunch grasses. Fall is certainly the time to get out and visit the vast grasslands in...
Petey talks about his childhood in Kentucky and his love of chickens.
