Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the Dusty Chaps in 1969. left to right Bill Lackey, Petey Mesquitey, Woody Janda, George Hawke.
It’s true that every year I get excited about fall blooming plants in the Aster family (Asteraceae) and proclaim that there should be a...
The bigtooth maple is no longer in its own family of Aceraceae, but is in Sapindaceae. Molecular taxonomy keeps us plant geeks on our...
I meant to talk more about the leaves of Physocarpus monogynus. They resemble the leaves of a currant or a…