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.
When we first moved out to Cochise County we were so lucky to have a few springs with abundant Mexican poppy (Eschscholzia mexicana) displays....
Well, there is nothing more fun, well okay, for me, than starting in the desert grassland and slowly driving and stopping your way up...
One of the positive sides of isolating and staying very close to home during the pandemic is that we discovered new places and rediscovered...