I Need A Cup of Tea

I've been compiling pictures for over a decade for this post.   So it's a long and incomplete tour of odd plants, but mostly tre...

Centaurea deflexa is a new species in cultivation form Southern Turkey.  It has begun to spread a little underground in my garden. The s...

In one day last week, I had the unusual pleasure of experiencing what is among the tallest (hardy) Yuccas, and also the smallest. ...

While I'm out in the desert, finding that the native Cirsium thistles' seeds have all been eaten by bugs, here are the ones in th...