by Alice Liles | Oct 30, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
I kept seeing these pictures I had saved on my desktop of pretty yellow flowers on this unidentified cactus. Then I started looking to see if I had indeed shared them before. Search though I did, I never found a blog spotlighting these flowers.So, even if you have...
by Alice Liles | Oct 23, 2017 | Bright Lights
Fire and ice? How about chili and ice cream? We sampled and voted for our favorites at the second Fire and Ice cook-off sponsored by the Muleshoe Chamber of Commerce Saturday night. Tamales, too. Chamber manager Kaci Morris and board members Steve Friskup, Kris...
by Alice Liles | Oct 19, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
Mammillaria bocasana is one of my favorite little cacti. I think I must have four or five of them and have, sadly, killed probably that many overwatering them; they are prone to easily rot. My others have produced flowers that were light pink, white, pale...
by Alice Liles | Oct 13, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
I had the pleasure of traveling to Houston for the 2017 Texas Association of Cactus and Succulent Societies (TACSS) Fall Seminar on Saturday, October 7. I also had the pleasure of staying with old friend Jenice Williamson who now lives in Houston, and she ferried me...
by Alice Liles | Oct 4, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
Several years ago Delores Harvey gave me two succulents, a stapelia lepida and this huernia macrocarpa, the plant to the right of the donkey tail sedum. I have enjoyed both and have written about both, but always found it hard to appreciate the blooms on the...
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