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 thinks that being out in the wild is good for children and adults as well. What?!
There are a dozen species of Melampodium and I wonder which one Linnaeus was looking at when he honored Melampus with the genus name....
Petey waxes poetic about life and finally describes a native Lotus. Let’s listen. Lotus greenei is truly a beautiful wildflower and yes, it does...
