by Alice Liles | Sep 15, 2015 | Bright Lights
After a visit to my friend Shari’s Victorian/shabby chic/eclectic-style garden on the banks of Lake Travis the other day, I was inspired to reinterpret one of her pieces of landscape art to match the southwest/rustic/desert/xeriscape-style of my garden. This is what...
by Alice Liles | Sep 14, 2015 | Bright Lights
I know I am a bit late-ha! that’s an understatement-getting this story out there, but here it is. The powers that be, pictured here, decided it was time for another blow-out, so on August 8th at the Fort Bend County Fairgrounds, they did it again; invited classes...
by Alice Liles | Sep 3, 2015 | Cactus Are Cool
The entrance to the club house at our country club had become an eyesore, did nothing but collect trash, Jeanetta Precure complained. So we set about to change that. Due to location and sun issues, plants didn’t always do well in that spot, plus Jeanetta didn’t have...
by Alice Liles | Aug 27, 2015 | Bright Lights
Every summer KCBD-TV out of Lubbock does something they call their Community Coverage Tour, which involves traveling to some of the surrounding towns in their viewing area and broadcasting the 6 and 10 o’clock news segments from a popular location within each town...
by Alice Liles | Aug 1, 2015 | Cactus Are Cool
One of my first really spectacular succulents was an aeonium. I think it was an aeonium sunburst. It grew tall and the rosette was about the size of a dinner plate. I never measured it, but it really was that big. Just a beautiful plant. Then it bloomed. And then it...
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