Mammillaria Bocasana
My Mammillaria bocasana is covered in blooms. I had noticed buds when I watered last week and several of them opened. But then yesterday I was greeted with more flowers than I could count!This is one reason mammillarias are so popular, They are good bloomers. They are...
My Little Pachypodium Brevicaule
This is my second Pachypodium brevicaule ; I rotted the first one. And interestingly, when I researched this species again for this story, I read that they are in fact easy to rot! Then the article went on to say that grafted specimens are much easier to grow, grow...
A Seldom Seen Succulent-Drimia Unifloria
Years ago I bought a start of this little plant that grows from bulbs, makes tiny white flowers, and to the uninitiated, sometimes just look like a batch of grass. But Drimia unifloria is a neat little plant that is unusual and adds a different texture to your...
The Adenium has put on a Show
I know I have shared this adenium with you before, but this year has been an exceptional year of blooming, so of course, I have to show it to you again!Adenium obeseum is native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and in its natural habitat grows to be tree size with...
My Rhipsalis Collection
Rhipsalis is a cactus that grows in trees in the rainforests of Brazil and other South American countries, so it is an epiphyte, one that supports itself in the crooks of branches of trees in rainforests. Unlike a parasitic plant that takes its nutrients and moisture...
An Uncommon Cactus
I wrote about my Leuchtenbergia principis back in 2014 and 2021. It had just bloomed. When I researched it, I found that it is the sole species of its genus and there is nothing else quite like it. I have a larger one that bloomed, but I also have this small one...
Brown Outside; Colorful Inside
January in Muleshoe doesn’t lend itself to much color other than brown. Brown grass, brown dirt, brown tumbleweeds, leafless trees; if the wind is blowing, which is often, dusty brown air. Winter up here isn’t very colorful anyway, and the drought hasn’t helped. But I...
One Way to Defeat Cactus Poachers
If you read my last cactus blog, “I was rewarded with Ariocarpus Blooms,” December 23, 2022, I talked about the damage cactus poachers are doing to Ariocarpus populations in Texas and Mexico, and I promised to tell you more about how to spot these dastardly pirates...
I was Rewarded with Ariocarpus Blooms
I have written about my Ariocarpus before, but I had three plants bloom recently, one I had checked daily for a flower and two others that surprised me!The species of Ariocarpus in general are native to South Texas, north and central Mexico, with different varieties...
This is How to Really Protect Your Agaves
I have an Agave Ovatafolia, commonly referred to as a whale’s tongue agave, that I bought in Austin at least ten years ago. I was told it was cold-hardy, so I planted it in the cactus bed, and for the first three or so years didn’t bother to give it any...
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