by Alice Liles | Nov 1, 2019 | Cactus Are Cool
October is traditionally the month for the annual Texas Association of Cactus and Succulents Societies Fall Seminar. This year it was hosted by the San Antonio Cactus and Xerophyte Society at the San Antonio Garden Center. I have attended several over the years, but...
by Alice Liles | Sep 8, 2019 | Cactus Are Cool
The first time I wrote about the coryphantha rungonii was on July 1, 2017, but it has outdone itself again, and I wanted to share it again. Some of you missed it the first time around, and it’s only fair to shower the plant with praise for an even more spectacular...
by Alice Liles | Aug 13, 2019 | Cactus Are Cool
One of my very favorite, dependable, beautiful, low-maintenance plants, agave harvardiana, shared its spectacular blooming mast with me and the neighborhood this summer. Alas, as is the nature of the plant, after it put its heart and soul into this bloom, it begins to...
by Alice Liles | Jun 19, 2019 | Cactus Are Cool
Well, not exactly. More like a hint of a creek or spring. I had a dry creek bed of gray/white rocks from Coleman, Texas, in my cactus garden. I had been reasonable happy with it all these years until I was inspired to do something different when I saw my friend...
by Alice Liles | Jun 9, 2019 | Cactus Are Cool
On May third I took a picture of this group of echinocereus reichenbachii, lace cactus. I counted fifty buds, more or less, at this time. But it’s hard to do! I may have counted a few more than once, and one or two might not have opened, or opened early by themselves...
by Alice Liles | May 9, 2019 | Cactus Are Cool
I bought this plant last year, maybe two years ago, to rescue it from the too-small pot from which offshoots were pushing their little heads up in search of room to grow. So I brought it home, repotted it, and the new crowns were relieved and happy and grew. This year...
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