Rain Deprived Dude in the Mules

July 13, 2024 00:04:27
Rain Deprived Dude in the Mules
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Rain Deprived Dude in the Mules

Jul 13 2024 | 00:04:27

/

Show Notes

I’m pretty sure I first encountered the plant called mala mujer in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson around 30 years ago. I had 10 years of commercial horticulture under my belt and I had become a native plant geek. “To heck with all these exotics,” I’d shout to people, “Grow native!” Yes, an obnoxious native plant geek. Anyway, I’m also pretty sure I turned that encounter into a Growing Native episode and I mispronounced the genus Cnidoscolus. “The C is silent,” my botanist/horticulturist friend Gene Joeseph gently told me. Where would I be without friends like that? There…

Other Episodes

Episode

April 24, 2014
Episode Cover

Senecio douglasii

Petey finds botanical treasures among roadside garbage.  It always happens this way; stop to look at one cool plant and lo and behold there...

Listen

Episode

October 03, 2019 00:05:20
Episode Cover

Solidago missouriensis

I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how...

Listen

Episode

March 07, 2016
Episode Cover

Scotoleon Niger

Scotoleon Niger If I got the species of my local ant lion correct it is by luck and some educational guessing. There are 100...

Listen