 The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Sally Wasowski shows us the native plants in her Northern New Mexico garden. Sally, what is this you're looking at? This is the tall paintbrush. It's looking really small right now because of the drought. But I love this because the hummingbirds love it so much. There's a short one for in the spring. And then this one comes up and it blooms mid-summer until the hummingbirds go south. Is this a semi-parasite like the other? It is, it is. And I think this one is probably parasitic on this chimiza here. Okay, I see you've got another plant here. The three-leaf sumac? The three-leaf sumac, right, or the aromatic sumac, because I do like how the leaves smell. I know some people don't, but I do. And this one also, it has little yellow flowers, gets red berries for the birds. This one is a little bit young yet. We bought it because we were buying the pinion and we chose the pinion that had this as a bonus. And the chimiza is really looking good here. Oh, I love this plant. This is so gorgeous, the yellow flowers. And have you ever looked at all the bugs on these? Oh yes, there's so many beetles, I just adore it. Then you've got roses. And the rose here, this is the little native woods rose. And it's really hard, I think, to grow from seed, so we finally just dug a little teeny bit off of friends out of a garden. And it has made quite a spread here. It just likes to make a thicket. And that's ultimately what we wanted out here, would be a whole thicket of roses. Okay, I notice over here you've got globe mellow. And it's growing in just the perfect location where it gets water that runs off of the patio. And your courtyard garden has a lot of plants too. Oh, let me show you. Oh, I see a lot of plants in here. So you do have a lot more here in the courtyard. Yes, I do. I'm really trying to get all my stuff started here so then I can scatter the seed out into the wild areas. Okay, and this is a lot drier side here, but it still has a lot of plants. Yes, this has sun most of the day. And as you say, it is very dry. And so the plants here, you can see are a lot shorter. There's a lot more space between the plants, a lot more desert pavement with all this rock. Whereas on the other side? Whereas on the other side, because this is where, when we do get snow, it really mountains up. And we get more moisture in here. And also, you can see there's a canali up there. Okay, so you're harvesting. And so this is a much damper part of the garden. And I can put more ponderosa or even plants that grow by the streams here in a very dry climate otherwise. Okay, and let's go see some of the native plants. Let's go. We're back in the natural environment here. This chemise is beautiful, even out here. Isn't it doing great? And this, oh, this beautiful yellow flower. What is this? This is called golden eye. And you can see why it chose to be here. Look at the canali up there. A little bit of extra runoff. But of course, with having no rain, we had no runoff. And it was just before this rain last week. It was only half this height and literally drooping. Wow. And it just made that quicker comeback. Little bit of rain, and it's exploded. Beautiful presentation. Oh, it's so beautiful here. Thank you for a tour of your wildflower garden. Thank you so much. I hope you come back. The preceding was a production of New Mexico State University. The views and opinions in this program are those of the author, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the NMSU Board of Regents.