by Alice Liles | Mar 23, 2014 | Blooming Now
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...
by Alice Liles | Feb 20, 2014 | Blooming Now
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...
by Alice Liles | Feb 5, 2014 | Blooming Now
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...
by Alice Liles | Jan 21, 2014 | Blooming Now
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;...
by Alice Liles | Jan 7, 2014 | Blooming Now
In my December 29 post, I mentioned that my thelocactus macdowellii bloom had not opened fully because there had not been enough sunshine? Well, between then and this latest Arctic blast, we actually had some sun, and it did open. And then I was tickled to discover...
by Alice Liles | Dec 29, 2013 | Blooming Now
The dogs and I just walked in 28 degree weather under an overcast dreary sky. Before coming in, I checked the greenhouse. Not dreary in there: Senecio cephalophorus Euphorbia milii in red Thelocactus macdowellii-This one has been trying to open for the...
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