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!!!
When we got our little homestead over 25 years ago, the woman we purchased it from told us, “Don’t forget to get the pecans...
Petey is excited about old pack rat middens and talks about our local pack rat species, Neotoma albigula.
Jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and the botanical name of clammy weed is Polanisia dodecandra. They are both in the Cleome family Cleomaceae. Many...