Growing Native

04:24 | Sep 16th, 2020

Jackass clover is Wislizenia refracta and the botanical name of clammy weed is Polanisia dodecandra. They are both in the…

05:01 | Sep 9th, 2020

You know you haven’t been hiking or botanizing out in the desert or grassland enough when you look to the…

04:49 | Sep 1st, 2020

Hummingbird trumpet has had quite a few botanical names and I’m still not sure that I got the current botanical…

05:06 | Aug 25th, 2020

At my age I should probably being thinking more of getting rid of clutter rather than adding to it. I…

04:36 | Aug 18th, 2020

Many years ago when I was running a nursery in Tucson, Arizona I was invited by a landscape architecture firm…

05:18 | Aug 11th, 2020

The scientific name for our gopher snake (or gophersnake. I’ve seen it written both ways) is Pituophis catenifer. The genus…

05:05 | Aug 4th, 2020

Since producing this episode of Growing Native we have encountered Jatropha macrorhiza a couple more times. A recent sighting was…

05:06 | Jul 28th, 2020

Raspberries are in the rose family, Rosaceae, the genus Rubus and with six species in Arizona. Five are native species and…