Petey has wild dreams if he stays in bed too long in the morning. Get up Petey!
Amoreuxia palmatifida is always a delightful botanical find. Look for it on rocky slopes between 3,500′ and 5,000′ in southeastern Arizona. The bloom period coincides with summer monsoon and the orange flowers are best seen in the morning unless it is a cloudy day when flowers stay open a little longer. The seed capsules are beautiful. Even Kearney and Peebles of Arizona Flora seem to wax poetic when they mention, “the hyaline endocarp, through which the seeds may be seen as through a window after the exocarp falls away.” Beautiful.
Seems every few years I revisit this old poem/song of mine. It’s a true story. Oh, and the band I was in back in...
I grew and sold California buckthorn for several years. Early on I sold it wholesale to other nurseries, but I also sold it at...
Well, there is nothing more fun, well okay, for me, than starting in the desert grassland and slowly driving and stopping your way up...
