New Mexico Locust and Papilionaceous Flowers

Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Apr 27 2025 | 00:04:16

00:00 / 00:04:16

Show Notes

I have grown New Mexico locust (Robinia neomexicana) in the past for some contract grows and I quickly learned that the spines don’t get any friendlier in cultivation. Oh, and I mentioned that this plant grows in thickets and so where I grew it in our nursery the roots escaped the containers and we now have a small thicket. Yikes! Oh well, we get pinkish purplish papilionaceous flowers in late April and into May. In the mountains it is definitely a May and June bloomer. Fun to photograph, but bring band aids. The photos are mine.

Other Episodes

Episode

October 29, 2019 • 00:05:04

Phlox in the Hills

I like the way the family name Polemoniaceae just rolls off the tongue. What a delicious word to say. Oh, and I love the...

Episode

July 13, 2016 •

Grassland Plant ID

Unless you are a botanist and are comfortable keying out plants in a flora, the only way for the rest of us to identify...

Episode

February 09, 2014 •

Rhus radicans!

Petey thinks it is just fantastic that poison ivy is part of the Bisbee streetscape. He’s a strange fellow. Poison ivy is a sumac....