Reflections

Plant communities are fascinating things. In the garden, the gardener likes to pretend he or she calls the shots. If plants are unhappy with their lot, they use passive-aggression---losing leaves or otherwise wasting away---until a gardener gets the hint and moves them. In the wild, plants scatter  whimsically across the landscape. A clump here and a clump there. Those islands of color may or may not become a carpet over time. The Sonoran desert doesn't make it easy for them. But as these desert poppies prove, it can be done.