Seems like many Tucsonans do not like bursage.You get burs in your flip flops. But it is the dominant shrub in much of our beautiful desert.It nurses the baby barrels and saguaros and slows water runoff during violent summer storms.If you eliminate these from your yard, why not just pave it and put up a parking lot? Triangle Leaf Bursage is unique to our desert.Trust me, it looks better than dirt.Bursage Photo Album
Tucsons Info Awk it. Index . Hey Lynx Rufus
Petey Mesquitey states it as "a sense of place", feel it!, no matter where you live... Arizona Native Plant Society Washington Natives
PCC's Sonoran Desert Ecology notes
Sonoran palms yah. Didn't miss a beat in that ridiculus March 2002 freeze.
Arizona is the USA's land of Ferocactus. Some other USA cacti ranges.
Western Red Cedar Pacific Madrone (Arbutus) But wait... here is an Arizona Madrone Yikes, did the Bullock toast this one just 3 weeks after the photo?
Fungi to be with. Raoul Quinault Boletus . Yes there is water in Az... and so are shrooms and some good eating. Yah.
Nother Nice Cacti Site
I built the structure but never covered it. Seeds from Native Seed Search don't need it. Chainmail against local rodents is higher priority (they will leave your versatile chard alone, but watch out for the cholla seedlings). Delineates place in yard though. (Over septic). Plans
Unrelated, but here is our recent backyard solar irrigation project.
Mr. Dave Slide guitar, with matching vocal for each tune.
Frank and Woody Show windmills and rearrangin' hot sticky Julys.
Los Dos Molinos flat enchilada with egg.
All Good Brew and Valkyrie for the strong. And besides Leavenworth, big beer (IPA) from Port Townsend that blew our gallon growler just outside Sequim. But... Nimbus Pale makes Tucson palatable... oh where is Pusch Ridge Lizzard?
Cool Nav Stuff
What Time is it?
Product of the Year for anyone who has huddled in the rain with a Nader safety locked no-flame version. The real thing is available again at a supermarket checkout line near you.
Amazing free software that can resize that batch of photos you took with your digital camera.
Send comments on bursage or whatever to: jendon@azstarnet.com
many thanks to http://www.eskimo.com/~jendon/
