Podcast Episodes
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When I was making the “dried seed to collect for display” list for you I should have said “screwbean mesquite beans”, not “seed,” but the twisty twir…
2 months, 1 week ago
Sandhill Cranes Call From a Borderlands Sky
Out in the borderlands near me I find mariola (Parthenium incanum) on the gravelly slopes and plains of the Desert Grassland and Chihuahuan Desert. I…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Cowpen Daisy
The photos are mine of Verbesina encelioides. Although it’s quite pretty, “a common weed of roadsides and waste places.”* *Kearney and Peebles, Arizo…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Ageratina herbacea
This episode is about a fall blooming plant called Ageratina herbacea. Ageratina means a small or smaller Ageratum… another beautiful blooming plant……
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Heuchera sanguinea
I was looking though some old notes of episodes and realized that I have talked about coral bells (Heuchera sanguinea) many times over the years. Lik…
3 months ago
Jackass Clover and Clammy Weed
Both jackass clover (Wislizenia refracta) and clammy weed (Polanisia dodecandra) are in the Cleome family Cleomaceae, having left the caper family Ca…
3 months, 1 week ago
Hummingbird Trumpet
Hummingbird trumpet (Epilobium canum) is a favorite late summer and fall wildflower in the wild or in a nursery. Well, in the wild is wonderful, but …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Autumnal Acorns
Though I didn’t talk about it in this episode, some of the great things about gathering acorns out in habitat are the encounters with wild creatures.…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Borderlands Mulberry
I walk by a native mulberry every day when I go to my office, the Books and Bones Retreat. I planted that Morus microphylla years ago and actually gr…
4 months ago
America's Onion
The genus Allium has had quite a taxonomic journey and is at this time (stay tuned!) in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae, where it had once been,…
4 months, 1 week ago