The Pancake Plant; Kalanchoe Luciae
Pancake plant, flapjack plant, whatever you call it, this is a really pretty kalanchoe. I have had one before, but the two I have now are blooming. This kalanchoe is native to South Africa. When I moved them in to protect them from the cold, into a barn with four...
Decorate Your Pumpkin with Succulents
Now that it’s almost time to replace pumpkins with snowmen, I’m finally getting around to showing you a way to decorate that pumpkin before you toss it. Now it does help if you have a fairy tale or Cinderella pumpkin because they have a deeper well where the stem is,...
The Ariocarpus Do It Again
I have shared these plants with you in the past, but some of you who are new to the blog might have missed them. They bloomed again the other day, and they are just so pretty, I though they were worth sharing again. This ariocarpus retusis is my best bloomer. The...
TACSS Fall Seminar in San Antonio
I spent the day Saturday at the San Antonio Garden Center with other cactus lovers from around the state to attend the Texas Association of Cactus and Succulent Societies’ Fall Seminar and thoroughly enjoyed myself. I may know more about cactus and succulents than the...
The Rusty Things Find Their Homes!
I promised last week to share with you what I did with the rusty treasures I came home with from my raid on a friend’s junk pile. All but two pieces found a home in the cactus garden, where they will most likely stay. Once the pieces are placed, they just seem to work...
My Own Private Shopping Spree for Rusty Stuff for the Garden
Went shopping on a recent trip in one of the many junk/antique/thrift/whatever stores that seem to dominate the streets of small towns in the Texas Hill Country. I came upon this discarded piece of farm equipment all cleaned up and displayed as an interior decorating...
Two Surprise Blooms
I discovered some blooms I wasn’t expecting while checking on everything. Thought I might as well share them with you. My lithops have bloomed before, but I like them and I don’t know that I have share this white one with you before. And even if I have, it never hurts...
Pruning the Pachypodiums, aka Madagascar Palms
In a blog post on July 18, 2012, I introduced you to the fat plants pachypodium geayi and p. lamerii, also known as Madagascar palms. That was in 2012; by 2016 the two pachys I kept had grown a foot or more taller than me. They were outside this Spring when we had...
Cactus, Succulents, and Heavy Rain
Muleshoe has had rain for the last seven days- August tends to be our monsoon season-and during those times when the water wasn’t falling from the sky, that sky was gray and overcast; no sunshine, which means that all my cactus and succulents, potted and in the...
Lobivia and Rebutia Do Their Thing
Over the course of the last three months I have enjoyed a variety of very different flowers, some which just happened to be all in the same pot. For example, look at these beauties on a lobivia I bought last year. In the same pot this little mammillaria plumosa...
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