by Alice Liles | Jul 25, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
My two adenium obesums, aka desert roses, were looking pretty sad coming out of the winter back in February, having dropped their leaves through the winter as these arid-land natives are wont to do in cold weather. I couldn’t remember the last time they had bloomed,...
by Alice Liles | Jul 1, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
My coryphantha rungonii always surprises me when it blooms, and it did again just the other day. I googled coryphantha to find out more about this particular cactus and looked at some of the images of coryphanthas and really couldn’t find one that looked much like...
by Alice Liles | Jun 19, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
This little cactus bloomed yesterday and reopened today, so I thought it deserved some recognition. Chamaelobivia is a hybrid of chamaecereus (peanut cactus) and lobivia, which happen to both now be classified in the echinopsis family. Chamaelobivia rose quartz...
by Alice Liles | Jun 1, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
I was given permission to collect cactus at a ranch in the Marfa, Texas, area a few years ago and was delighted to find these chubby little blue barrels that I thought were just a fatter version of the horse cripplers I had gathered in Muleshoe and in the Texas Hill...
by Alice Liles | May 17, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
I had the pleasure of working with my son AJ last week designing and planting a succulent garden. A client, Kelly McKinney who lives in Buda, Texas, wanted him to turn a forgotten vegetable garden into a succulent garden. When she mentioned succulents, he told her he...
by Alice Liles | Apr 29, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
Last time I told you about one of the two new plants I brought home from the TACSS meeting in San Antonio, the turbinicarpus lophoroides on the right. Let me tell you about the other one, an agave isthmensis. This picture was taken right after I brought them home in...
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