Thank you, Grandmother Nature

September 15, 2024 00:04:24
Thank you, Grandmother Nature
Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
Thank you, Grandmother Nature

Sep 15 2024 | 00:04:24

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Show Notes

I can’t seem to get a handle on how many species of Heuchera are found North America, and there’s gotta be some in Northern Mexico, right? And, I read that there is a single species in Far Eastern Russia. Whaaa? Well there are 40 to 50 species in American and a bunch of cultivars…a whole bunch! Many of those are grown purely as foliage plants. Who needs pretty flowers when you got those basal leaves? Well, I do and here in the borderlands look for Heuchera sanguinea in shady rocky moist areas…cliffs, rocky little seeps, nooks and crannies from 3,500’…

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