Petey gets so excited about the Apache Pine. What’s up with that?
Pinus englemannii is it’s northern most range in southeastern Arizona. Though at first glance it appears to be a Ponderosa Pine, certainly the very long needles give it away. It’s one of my favorite pines to grow and I take them to the farmers markets in Cochise County to sell. I suspect they will make me rich. It could happen.
Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum is thought to be the mother all chiles, because so many cultivars of peppers have come from this wild rascal....
All the plants and their communities I was excitedly jabbering about are in the borderlands year round, but the sandhill cranes are only here...
Petey says it is the year of the Desert Cottontail and tells us all about the furry little rascals that breed like rabbits.