Peter jabbers about cool winged grasshoppers and a plant called Stinging Serpent.
Cevallia sinuata or Stinging Serpent is found around the wild borderlands of southeastern Arizona from 2,500 to 5,000 feet in elevation. The flowers are fascinating and the stinging hairs are very cool.
I read in HORTUS THIRD that there are about 150 species of Vaccinium found in “cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere,” 40 of...
I like the way the family name Polemoniaceae just rolls off the tongue. What a delicious word to say. Oh, and I love the...
Petey fights the blues with a walk among plant friends. Weirdo. Bumelia is one of those plants that seems so out of place. A...