Lou,



Hows it going ---



Well--- To ALL--Hows it going!! Sorry I don't pop up more. Just busy as heck and interst running all which a ways.



I have been real quiet lately even though I still have chucks & even have a clutch of Redtail eggs in the ground.



Here are several of my Mainstays as far a plants growing in the pen goes.



Common Ragweed -- they eat on the leaves,



Prostrate Euphorbias ( that reddish flat weed that grows in every sidewalk crack with white sap)and all similar weedy euphorbias-- same thing-- they eat leaves & all



Palafoxia - lizards seldom eat the leaves but love the purple flowers. A favorite!

Gaillardia-- tough & common wildflower. Leaves & flowers both eate--great chuck plant !

Calylophus--another great tough wild one that gets flowers & leaves eaten.

Indigofera miniata-- a great little creeping plant with small red flowers. They wallow in it with love!Flowers & leaves

Dalea--- flowers & leaves

Epazote (Chenopodium ambrosioides)nasty pungent weedy plant used to flavor beans in mexico--chucks love it. Almost a ragweed!

Scutellaria -- or Skullcap-- mainly the small flowers.

Lepidium-- weedy ol Peppergrass--they love all of it.

Erodium -- Storksbill/ Fillaree

Phacelia

Mallows/ Sida---- almost anything in this family works!

Palo Verde flowers---I break off limbs full of flowers & let em eat!

Mirbalis - the Four O'Clock family.

Verbena

Bladderpods-Lesquerella



These are some of what I grow in the pen-- -- the Palo Verde is in the yard so I utilize the flowers & trim limbs at the same thorny time!

I think 90% of the above are Texas natives & grow faily close to San Antonio area`



Hope this is of some help.

I can send you seeds of some of these plants if you want.



Later



DVL

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