by Alice Liles | Jul 2, 2015 | Blooming Now, Huernia Zebrina de Marco
I have been looking for more stapeliads and huernias to add to my collection because of their striking flowers with their intricate designs and wonderful colors. I was finally at the right place at the right time the other day and came across this huernia zebrina de...
by Alice Liles | Jun 24, 2015 | Blooming Now, Yuccas
In West Texas and the Hill Country, Spring does bring on wildflowers, but it also blesses us with yucca blooms. Bear grass, they call it here, but yucca is what it is. I don’t know the exact variety, and there are many, but it grows wild here, and if left to its...
by Alice Liles | May 8, 2015 | Blooming Now, Outdoor Cactus Blooms
As I mentioned on Facebook the other day, the cactus blooming season is upon us. All of the pictures I am about to share with you were taken on the same day, April 29th. I found one lovely surprise after another as I walked through my outdoor cactus garden. And the...
by Alice Liles | Apr 6, 2015 | Blooming Now, Cotyledon Orbiculata
Aren’t these just the neatest little flowers? The plant, as you can see, is not anything special, but it also is not ugly. The flowers, on the other hand, are delightful and unusual. The blooms measure only a little more than an inch in length, but they are...
by Alice Liles | Nov 23, 2014 | Blooming Now
As promised, the other fat plant, pachypodium baronii, that was due to bloom, did, and this is what it looks like. Similar to the pachypodium lealii saundersii, but a whiter flower and some difference in the spines. And you can see the thick body that qualifies...
by Alice Liles | Oct 28, 2014 | Blooming Now
The most easily recognized pachypodium is probably pachypodium lamerii or p. geayi the so-called Madagascar palm; this is not that pachypodium! Madagascar palms are from Madagascar; this pachypodium is from South Africa, but has the necessary fat body...
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