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The Desert is Beautiful
It took a visiting niece to get Petey back out into the Sonoran desert and remind him that the desert is beautiful.
Aquilegia chrysantha fun
Well, there is nothing more fun, well okay, for me, than starting in the desert grassland and slowly driving and stopping your way up...
Pericome caudata
August and September in southeastern Arizona is the most wonderful time to get up into the sky islands, especially is you like cool native...
Wild Zinnias Rule
Cenchrus pauciflorus or Sandbur is a grass! It is a maddening weed. But how about the wild Zinnias of the borderlands? There are 3...
Finding Wild Things
Petey jabbers about cool plants and critters found in the grassland near his home, but finally hones in on a climbing milkweed vine called...
Growing Plants, Feeling Good
Growing Plants, Feeling Good After 34 years of growing native plants Petey still gets excited about finding cool plants in the wild and growing...