by Alice Liles | Sep 2, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
Muleshoe has had rain for the last seven days- August tends to be our monsoon season-and during those times when the water wasn’t falling from the sky, that sky was gray and overcast; no sunshine, which means that all my cactus and succulents, potted and in the...
by Alice Liles | Aug 26, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
Over the course of the last three months I have enjoyed a variety of very different flowers, some which just happened to be all in the same pot. For example, look at these beauties on a lobivia I bought last year. In the same pot this little mammillaria plumosa...
by Alice Liles | Aug 19, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
You may not have a cactus garden, but you might be wanting to do more xeriscaping in your garden, and if so, you might consider adding some Mexican feather grass, also called silky thread grass. I started out with some of this grass in a bed between the house and the...
by Alice Liles | Aug 12, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
Back before Bill created the grain elevator, I came up with the bright idea that we could throw together some birdhouses for the cactus garden. When I would see them for sale, all cute and little and rustic and decorated, upon closer inspection I would notice they...
by Alice Liles | Aug 6, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
My husband surprised me with this, his very own idea, his very own creation, a grain elevator for my cactus garden. He casually went about building it during the cold of the winter months when there was nothing to work on outside and when I wasn’t in and out of his...
by Alice Liles | Jul 22, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
One of my favorite plants is the stapelia lepida that I think I have shared with you before. But the flower is so intricate it is worth sharing again. Every year it blooms, and every year I take yet another picture of that amazing flower, this one blooming in ...
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