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!!!
I arrived in Tucson, Arizona in the fall of 1967 to attend the U of A. Up to that point I had been born...
The green dodo, Dodoneaea viscosa…I don’t think that the variety angustifolia still applies to our native dodo as botanists Benson and Darrow had it…anyway,...
Canyon hackberry must be an old common name, because all the new literature calls it western hackberry. Western, I suppose, as opposed to the...