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Feeling a Little Better
We are living in stressful times and getting out of the house, if only to your back yard, is always a good idea. Native...
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Brittle Bush Spring
Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in the...
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Vultures and Cranes
When I was a boy vultures were called buzzards. It’s an interesting common name that came across the ocean with early British colonists who...
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Zoned Out!
Growing plants and being involved in horticulture since 1980 meant knowing the USDA’s plant hardiness zones so I could jabber to folks knowingly (Ha!)...
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Signs of Spring
Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the...
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Rattlesnake Education
I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants...