Petey will never be a learned fellow, but he’s a pretty nice fella.
Tufted evening primrose (Oenothera caespitosa) is beautiful wildflower of the uplands. And though seeing it on a summer hike sounds hot and grueling, it does bloom into the fall. If you want one for your own habitat, it is grown commercially, so look for it in a good little nursery. But I do hope you stumble upon it on an early morning hike in the hills.
Petey is having insect issues in the garden and gets pretty worked up. Let’s listen. Vegetable gardens are very rewarding, but always challenging. At...
I originally wrote Borderlands Jaguar while driving up to Tucson to do a presentation for the Center for Biological Diversity (http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/). I wrote it...
Unless you are a botanist and are comfortable keying out plants in a flora, the only way for the rest of us to identify...
