Just a Few Odds and Ends
It is midnight and even though we have a beautiful full moon, it is still dark enough to make it hard to check the ID tags on these plants, but I wanted to share them with you. the weather has been an abomination and I am getting ready to attend a 50th year class...
The Blooming Season Has Begun
I think the cold weather may finally be officially passed. The cholla and prickly pear have ceased to droop and are putting on buds; the hedgehogs and rainbows are blooming, and one horse crippler has an early flower. This is the first week of May, the time my cactus...
Notocactus Haselbergii
This little cactus is a nice bloomer and the orange to red flowers provide a contrast to many of the pink blooms of many cactus. You may see this cactus also identified as Parodia haselbergii. More experts changing the names on me. The plant is native to...
Yellow Echeveria Blooms
Okay, I’ll admit it. I can’t identify this echeveria; no doubt it was acquired before I realized I should keep up with the names, and there so many hybrids tha tsometimes it is hard to make the distinction between them. But it happens to be one of the few...
Spring is on the Way
As I walked to the greenhouse yesterday, a spot of pink caught my eye. Sure enough, one of the Wyoming cactus was blooming, a sure sign Spring is actually coming, a much-surer sign of Spring that any Ground hog shadow. Or no shadow. I always get the signs confused....
Watering Outside Cactus in the Winter
Texas, along with many other states, has been in a drought for the last few years, so many I have lost count, and this winter was especially dry. And even though cactus and succulents are supposed to live in dry, arid conditions, mine took a deadly hit from this...
Wax Echeveria
My wax echeveria just bloomed for the first time, so I thought I would share it with you. I have seen this plant referred to as echeveria wax, lipstick, agavoides, and ebony, so take your choice. I learned the hard way that it is prone to sunburning, so be aware and...
A Field of Kalanchoe Color
Well, not exactly a field, but a bit of color on a dreary winter day. We are caught in the prolonged series of cold fronts that you may also be experiencing, and I suspect that you, too, are good and ready for Spring to show up. But in the meantime, I can slip into...
Mammillarias and Their Halos
I suspect I may have written about mammillarias before, but I never get tired of their pretty little halos of flowers. And they are blooming now, so I will share them with you again. All varieties of mammillaria flower but don’t all produce the circle of flowers;...
Don’t Be Afraid to Prune Your Jade Tree
Crassula ovata, commonly referred to as a jade tree, is one of the more popular and easily grown succulents. If it is given the right growing conditions. With enough sunlight and correct watering and trimming, crassula ovata will grow into a lovely plant shaped like a...
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