“There is gold in them thar hills,” so was the call of the ‘49’ers who were beckoned to search for the elusive, but valuable, yellow metal in California during the mid-19th century. This enticement has lured hundreds of thousands to remote and usually hostile locations the world over in pursuit of quick wealth. With the…Read more
Tag: Flowering Plants
Prickly Pears: A Low-Down Sticky Situation
April showers produce May flowers, as the old saying goes. That adage assumes there are April (or May) showers, but the liquid from above is never a guaranteed certainty. Some year’s the spring bloom of native plants is influenced by a dry April, a late March frost or a relatively warm winter. Fortunately, there are…Read more