Latest Episodes
The Green Dodo
The green dodo (Dodoneaea viscosa var. angustifolia) was a very common landscape plant around Tucson back when I first started working in a wholesale...
A Mesquitey Gardening History
Well, now you know about my personal gardening history. It’s not done. I mean there is history in the making in the garden just...
A Chicken Love Song
I think I revealed most of my chicken history in this show. It is an ongoing saga, though I am much more in control...
Tageticula yuccasella (Tageticula elatella)
Initially it was frustrating to read about Tageticula yuccasella as the moth that pollinated all of our native yucca species, when I knew from...
Western Soapberry Tree
Western soapberry is Sapindus saponaria var. drummondii and is in the Sapindaceae. In that family there are around twelve species of Sapindus. I say...
Sky Island Excitement
The concept of the mountain ranges of the southwest as sky islands goes back to at least 1943 when Natt N. Dodge wrote that...