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 talks about the beautiful desert shrub Simmondsia chinensis, better known as jojoba.
I gathered seed of Ceanothus greggii on a rocky slope in May. Buck brush is what I’m talking about and yeah, it’s easier to...
When I sat down to put this episode together I thought it was going to be about the flatheaded wood borers I find when...