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 laments the loss of light. Rubber Rabbitbrush is a wonderful native shrub of the uplands. The golden yellow blooms atop gray stems in...
Petey is enticed into the hills to look at plants and there is much excitement. Petey is easy. Summer rains bring our cool native...
I was incorrect about the species of Acalypha in this show. The correct name is A. phleoides (the former A. lindheimeri), not neomexicana as...
