by Alice Liles | Apr 30, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
This little yucca bloomed for me for the first time this year. I discovered Santa Fe Greenhouses on a visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico, many years ago and then enjoyed ordering plants through their catalog, High Country Gardens. I think this plant was one I ordered...
by Alice Liles | Apr 26, 2016 | Bright Lights
One other discovery I made on this last trip to the Hill Country was a little cluster of white bluebonnets. We all enjoy the flood of bluebonnets in the Spring. And you may have heard of or have seen the pink bluebonnet that we Aggies prefer to call maroon, or as it...
by Alice Liles | Apr 22, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
I bought this cactus in 2012; this year it finally bloomed. It was well worth the wait. Echinobivia rainbow burst is a hybrid that gets it name from being a cross between echinopsis and lobivia. Colors of blooms range from white, gold, yellow, orange, pink, red,...
by Alice Liles | Apr 19, 2016 | Bright Lights
So to continue my story about the wildflowers and railroad track, I was told about a half mile down the track there was an old railroad trestle and yet more bluebonnets that would make for a nice picture. Well, I needed my daily walk anyway, and a half mile isn’t that...
by Alice Liles | Apr 17, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
Along with some large specimens for the garden (which I will share another time), I also added some smaller non-cold hardy cactus a couple of weeks ago after a visit to Cactus Town (“Cactus Town Texas,” January 29, 2016), thelocactus Glory of Texas. And it bloomed...
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