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!!!
There are a couple other species of Eysenhardtia found over in Texas and more species as you head into Mexico and as far south...
Petey jabbers about monkey flowers and sandhill cranes and declares that spring has sprung in the desert grassland.
I suppose the thinking is that any wildflowers blooming along the side of the road will beautify that road and who cares what’s in...
