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Isn’t it wonderful to live in a region where clouds and humidity and rain are so celebrated? You can identify the natives and converted natives as ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2020
- Length: 05:05
These day trips of ours into the hills are so renewing. The particular canyon that I talking about is very close to our home and within 30 or 40 mi...
- Added: Jun 08, 2020
- Length: 05:13
I could have jabbered on forever (you probably noticed) and still not have mentioned all the wonderful things happening now in the uplands as sprin...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 05:51
We have always tried to get out to hike and picnic in wild places around us here in Cochise County, Arizona. I still go out by myself to botanize a...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:02
There are 13 species of oaks found in Arizona and they range from 3,000 to 8,000 feet in elevation across the state. The only one I haven’t seen in...
- Added: May 18, 2020
- Length: 05:07
I like the name sumac. I learned it when I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth was poison sumac or poison ivy, but there...
- Added: May 04, 2020
- Length: 05:40
March really is the month of change around all of us in the borderlands of southeastern Arizona. How fun to celebrate the arrival of turkey vulture...
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 04:48
Is it acceptable to use fallen leaves for garden mulch and compost making or should we leave them alone? And of course, Mike Mcgrath takes your ph...
- Added: Jan 08, 2020
- Length: 54:58
White-tailed deer in southwest North America are Odocoileus virginiana couesi or Coues white-tailed deer. The naturalist Elliot Coues is probably r...
- Added: Dec 18, 2019
- Length: 05:12
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:32
I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 05:12
So many native plants are ready for some of that monsoonal moisture and I am too. Come on summer rains!
- Added: Jul 11, 2019
- Length: 04:55
Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is very common around out little homestead. There are thickets of it all along the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. It ...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 11:28
Anisacanthus thurberi or desert honeysuckle is in the Acanthus family, Acanthaceae. I do like the common name cola de gallo, because it captures th...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:27
I suppose the thinking is that any wildflowers blooming along the side of the road will beautify that road and who cares what’s in the hydro-seed m...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:09
I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more about jojoba (Simmondsia chinesis) other than what you hear in this show, except that it is now in its own ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:20
It’s true that life in southeastern Arizona is full of “behold!” moments. It is so exciting to live in such a diverse land, both in plants and anim...
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- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 05:07
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Hmm, I sure talk about a lot of things in this show, but fall does this to me and it is the season of seasons that it has just begun. So the monsoo...
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 04:55
The common name of chocolate flower refers to the surprising morning fragrance of the flower.
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 05:47
- Added: Apr 09, 2009
- Length: 05:01
