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I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 04:01
I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 04:16
Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in t...
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 04:35
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
I always want to add an extra T when I write Yucca baccata, but no, two Cs and one T is correct. The specific epithet baccata is from Latin and mea...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:59
I originally learned the botanical name of this native plant as Eupatorium greggii, but it is now Conoclinum dissectum. It’s neat that the tribute ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:13
Wandering through a woodland.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:16
This episode is a reminiscence sparked by some old photos. I’m pretty sure my father took the photos, because I can’t remember him ever being witho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:42
Quilting binds women together through history and in community.
- Added: May 24, 2010
- Length: 09:56
