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.
The photos are mine
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson....
The concept of the mountain ranges of the southwest as sky islands goes back to at least 1943 when Natt N. Dodge wrote that...
