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Salvia officinalis is known as cooking sage or garden sage. It is a sage and I say that because folks seem to apply the name sage to many other gen...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:11
The photos are mine and of the plant Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum. It sure is nice to have some white flowers mixed in with the oceans of yellow ...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:13
I think it’s fascinating that there are several species of winterfat found in Eurasia and Europe. That’s where the genus was first described by a G...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 05:43
I’m telling you, late summer and fall are great times to get out into the hills, especially if you want to find interesting plants. While you’re ou...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 05:02
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
I know that being in the moment or being here now is important, but I confess to spending a lot of time wanting to be there now and I’ll be happy t...
- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 05:03
Oh my goodness, there are beetles, bees and moths that visit the open flowers of Calylophus harwegii from late afternoon and through the night. Som...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 05:45
I guess I don’t have a whole lot more to add about this show. Well, I have been known to sing a little better than this.
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 04:37
I sure talk about a lot different flora and fauna. From three species of quail, to canyon wrens, to Yarrows spiny lizards, to bristlehead (Carphoch...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 05:30
- Added: Mar 18, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Berberis fremontii is in the Barberry family or Berberidaceae…that’s fun to pronounce. Fremont barberry has quite a range north of the Salt River i...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:16
Well, I’m not sure I can add a whole lot more to this true story, but here are a few ringtail facts that are fun. Okay, fun for nature geeks like y...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 05:10
I like the name sumac and I’ve known it since I was a kid in Kentucky. The most talked about sumac of my youth was poison sumac or poison ivy, but ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:42
Hmm, I’m not doing a very good job of keeping up with botanical names. Either that or I’m making them up as I go. The current and correct name for ...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 05:13
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
Soderbergh, one of our best and most versatile directors, announced about four years ago that he was retiring from making movies and was going to f...
- Added: Dec 09, 2017
- Length: 04:24
A broader range of music to explore the idea that music can be the abstract unspoken common bond in societies when the spoken bonds are fractured b...
- Added: Nov 05, 2017
- Length: 05:24:29
Well, the getting out of the growing business thing is not going well at all and I’ve had to come to grips with the fact that that I still need to ...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2017
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 1
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about party plann...
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- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This is the second week about ...
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- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about second marr...
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- Added: Oct 18, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about new clothes...
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- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Weekly, 90-second, humorous, radio interstitial drop-ins featuring Cherry Capri talking about retro inspired topics. This week is about summertime ...
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- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Though Sonoran Desert millipedes are nocturnal, this is the time of year when you see them out and about on muggy overcast days.
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 04:56
