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.
Salvia officinalis is known as cooking sage or garden sage. It is a sage and I say that because folks seem to apply the...
While weeding and cleaning his greenhouse Petey finds a nifty native Salvia sp. and tells us all about it.
A morning or two after I recorded this show I heard a scaled quail calling, so now I have both species calling starting at...