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 gathered seed of Ceanothus greggii on a rocky slope in May. Buck brush is what I’m talking about and yeah, it’s easier to...
The Coachwhip snake is found all over southern Arizona in one color phase or another. I do remember finding a black phase Coachwhip years...
I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants....
