Spadefoot Podcast no. 2 COVID Days, Planting in Summer, Paper bag bush and shrubby deer-vetch

This is Katy & Jared’s long anticipated second Spadefoot Nursery podcast. Ok maybe nobody was anticipating this, but here it is anyway! In this episode they discuss some of their favorite plants, business during COVID (or lack thereof), how to plant, and keep plants alive in the summer, and discuss some details about a trip they took where they discovered some rare plants.

Images below are for reference to the podcast:

The rare Berlandiera monocephala. Katy and Jared found a population of about 40 plants in San Rafael Valley (where it has never been documented before). It’s a cousin of the chocolate flower (Berlandiera lyrata).

Also rare, but tiny too. Asclepias uncialis is a tiny milkweed. It has been found in grasslands near this area, but not often, and never documented for San Rafael Valley. Ain’t it cute?

Katy’s plant choise was Ottleya rigida or deer-vetch. It’s not totally clear what the current taxonomy is on this species—it is also known as Lotus rigida, or Acmispon rigidus.

Jared’s plant choice was paper bag bush or Scutellaria mexicana (he mistakenly said Scutellaria arizonica). It was once known as Salazaria mexicana.