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King of Klutter
At my age I should probably being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I tell our daughters that...
Mariosousa millefolia
Many years ago when I was running a nursery in Tucson, Arizona I was invited by a landscape architecture firm to supply the all...
Pituophis in the Hen House!
The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus name looks like a...
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Jatropha macrorhiza
Since producing this episode of Growing Native we have encountered Jatropha macrorhiza a couple more times. A recent sighting was over near the New...
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Red raspberry and Fox Squirrel
Raspberries are in the rose family, Rosaceae, the genus Rubus and with six species in Arizona. Five are native species and one introduced. Rubus...
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Monsoon Pudding Days
Phemeranthus aurantiacus, the former Talinum aurantiacum, is now in Talinaceae, the flameflower family, “a family of two genera and 28 species.” There’s more; the...