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

February 09, 2014
Episode Cover

Primavera

  Petey babbles on about the southern sun, long shadows, kinetic art in the house and finally a small primrose. Whew! Oenothera primiveris seems a...

Listen

Episode 0

December 15, 2024 00:04:20
Episode Cover

Sycamores on a Gravelly Plain

I’ve written a lot of episodes about sycamore trees over the years. Below are some of the things I wrote for  those episodes. “I...

Listen

Episode 0

December 27, 2021 00:05:08
Episode Cover

Road Across the Grassland

Happy New Year!

Listen