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.
When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who...
Sycamores are the genus Platanus, which was the old Greek name for the tree that is the species Platanus orientalis. There are five or...
This show could also be called Typha latifolia and Grus canadensis, which has a nice scientific ring to it. Cattails are “plants of marshes...
