Regional Crayons and Calliandra

About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of regional crayons and the blooming of fairy dusters in their biotic community.

Ms. Mesquitey and I like the idea of regional crayons. The colors of your home place, of your own biotic community. When we saw the fairy dusters (Calliandra eriophylla) blooming on that rocky slope we realized that maybe it would need a few different crayons. Yay! I don’t know it this interests you, but fairy duster is pretty easy to grow from seed. You just need to get the little bean pods before they snap open and send seed shooting across the desert where native critters eat them. Oh dear! But hey, if you don’t feel like gathering and germinating…

People in this episode

Host: Petey Mesquitey

Guest: Ms. Mesquitey

Topics covered

• regional crayons
• native plants
• biotic community
• seed germination
• fairy duster

Keywords

• regional crayons
• Calliandra
• fairy duster
• seed gathering
• native plants

Mentioned in this episode

Products: fairy duster, Calliandra eriophylla

Places: desert, rocky slope

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