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.
Bush Muhly is the species Muhlenbergia porteri. There are over 40 species of muhlys found in Arizona and across the southwest. It would be...
Where we live in southeastern Arizona it has been a very wet winter with rain out in the flats and snow in the hills...
Canyon hackberry must be an old common name, because all the new literature calls it western hackberry. Western, I suppose, as opposed to the...