Well shoot, I spent so much time jabbering about my conversion to desert rat and monsoon believer that I left some stuff out. So here is what I left out and thought you may want to know:
I guess that’s it. The photos of the senna flowers and the cloudless sulphur caterpillar are mine and taken of some plants that I planted years ago along our drive. Every July and August they bloom and remind me of “my magical monsoon belief system”.
The scientific name of the black swallowtail is Papilio polyxenes. Papilio is from the Latin for butterfly and the specific epithet polyxenes is from...
It was the American botanist Soreno Watson, who was on the receiving end of the Lemmon’s collections, that named the onion collected in the...
Anisacanthus thurberi or desert honeysuckle is in the Acanthus family, Acanthaceae. I do like the common name cola de gallo, because it captures the...