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.
Where we live in southeastern Arizona it has been a very wet winter with rain out in the flats and snow in the hills...
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or...
The etymology of the word mistletoe is all over the place and has been traced to Old English, Middle English, Anglo Saxon and old...
