Petey fights the blues with a walk among plant friends. Weirdo.
Bumelia is one of those plants that seems so out of place. A “what the heck?” sort of plant. The species ranges from Florida, across the southern states and ending up in southeastern Arizona, its most western location. There are some beautiful thickets of Bumelia along arroyos in the desert grassland between Gleeson and Tombstone. You should go look.
I like the title Wild Lettuce for this show. It seems incongruous, as in wild and lettuce don’t seem to go together. But where...
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson....
I was looking though some old notes of episodes and realized that I have talked about coral bells (Heuchera sanguinea) many times over the...
