by Alice Liles | Apr 4, 2018 | Cactus Are Cool
Attended a photography workshop the other day with the objective of making myself use the manual setting on my camera instead of my old reliable landscape setting. The landscape setting has been my go-to setting and has served me well and while I will still use it...
by Alice Liles | Mar 17, 2018 | Cactus Are Cool
I now have two of these mammillarias with no identification on either of them! I even Googled images of mammillarias in hopes of finding it, and did, and wouldn’t you know it-mammillaria with yellow flowers was the only label I could find. Yellow on the bright green...
by Alice Liles | Feb 28, 2018 | Cactus Are Cool
The weather is still not cooperating, but I have few specimens that are determined to bloom, nice weather or not. So let me share a few that I am enjoying right now. I can hole up in the greenhouse, listen to wind howling outside, and take my time looking at the...
by Alice Liles | Feb 18, 2018 | Cactus Are Cool
I was surprised to find this mammillaria in bloom the other day when I went in the greenhouse, the first time for it to bloom. I’m afraid this is one for which I lost the identification tag. Or perhaps it was just ID’ed as mammillaria species, which happens, what with...
by Alice Liles | Feb 10, 2018 | Cactus Are Cool
Once again I came across an article in a newspaper I disagree with-big surprise, huh? But once again I think succulents are being put in a situation where they are doomed for disappointment. The article I am at odds with recommends planting succulents in terrariums...
by Alice Liles | Jan 25, 2018 | Cactus Are Cool
A reader asked about the soil I use with my cactus and succulents the other day, and I casually responded that I mix compost dirt and perlite. Later I realized that really wasn’t a very helpful answer! I suspect he is not the only person who grapples with that...
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