Here at LifeScapes, Susan blogs about life at Meadow Knoll, the homestead she and husband Bill Albert settled more than 30 years ago, deep in the Texas Hill Country. She posts about the landscape and the many creatures that share their 31 acres, as well as local and planetary environmental issues. She also writes about her life as a writer, publisher, and teacher. For more about the Alberts’ wildlands, woodlands, gardens, farm animals, and (of course) writing, read her memoirs: Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place and An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary Days.
Desert Willow: A Texas Native
It looks like an orchid, doesn’t it? It isn’t, and it isn’t a willow, either. Chilopsis linearis is actually in the begonia family, along with the catalpa tree and the trumpet vine. But the leaves look willow-ish and the native peoples used it in the same way they used willows. Close enough. Here in the Texas […]
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