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!!!
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go....
The Dainty Sulfur (Nathalis iole) flies year round all over Arizona, especially on mild days. The western pygmy blue (Brefidium exile) is the smallest...
Petey jabbers about monkey flowers and sandhill cranes and declares that spring has sprung in the desert grassland.
