Desert Honeysuckle Memory

May 11, 2025 00:04:15
Desert Honeysuckle Memory
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Desert Honeysuckle Memory

May 11 2025 | 00:04:15

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Show Notes

Over the years I’ve found populations of desert honeysuckle with different colored flowers, so I’ve grown plants with red brick colored flowers, with orange flowers and with yellow flowers. I’ve read that white flowering plants can be found. Can’t wait! There are other Anisacanthus spp. and cultivars to be found at your favorite native plant nursery. Collect them all! It was in a conversation with Tucson Sentinel reporter Natalie Robbins that she told me the story of being homesick in New York City and listening to a recording of white winged doves calling. The photos of Anisacanthus thurberi flowers are…

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