Petey finds botanical treasures among roadside garbage.
It always happens this way; stop to look at one cool plant and lo and behold there are other interesting plants to see. The original plant we stopped to see is Senecio douglasii and it is a wonderful perennial and deserves to be grown, so I gathered seed. Yay!!!
Petey can’t get to the mountains, but the mountains come to him. Lucky dude. Monarda menthaefolia or bee balm is a spectacular wildflower. Well...
For me, every good story about a native plant starts with the source of the plant, its provenance. Then the story follows. I can...
Petey rambles on and on and even recites a poem! I suspect that to many nursery folks propagating the plants they will grow is...