Crotalaria pumila or Rattle Box is a sweet little legume found out in the grassland and up slope as well. The family Leguminosae may be Fabaceae now or maybe it is the other way around, but one thing is for sure: at night Kangaroo Rats use the pods of rattle box to shake out rhythms as they swirl beautiful patterns in dust with their long tails . It’s true.
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at...
Many years ago when I was running a nursery in Tucson, Arizona I was invited by a landscape architecture firm to supply the all...
Folks love to purchase blooming penstemons in the spring. I mean, who can resist the floriferous panicles of all the…
