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.
Some personal history in poem and song. The photos are mine…well, I dug them out of the archives. That’s the very beginning of the...
Unless you are a botanist and are comfortable keying out plants in a flora, the only way for the rest of us to identify...
There are around 150 species of Rhus (sumacs) found around the world in temperate regions. They are found in both North and South America...
