Petey feels the need to jabber about three different wildflowers. This better be interesting.
We did not have good winter rains and what wildflowers we’ve gotten this spring are courtesy of one good rain event. One good rainy day is an event. So the flourishing flowers mentioned were helped out by that event. And listen, if you were to have only one native wildflower in your pollinator garden, and that would be very sad indeed, but it should be Eupatorium now Conoclinum greggii. And it is grown commercially! How cool is that? Very cool.
Petey likes his local farmers market so much he sings about it. Let’s listen. Farmers markets are fantastic. They bring people and food together...
False Solomon’s seal (and a dozen other common names!) was formerly in Liliaceae, but is now in Asparagaceae. There are…
Petey says it is the year of the Desert Cottontail and tells us all about the furry little rascals that breed like rabbits.