by Alice Liles | Aug 21, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
The Cactus and Succulent Society of America (CSSA) held its biennial convention in Colorado Springs this year. Here’s how it went. I arrived July 12 at the Colorado Springs Marriott to register and get settled in. I met up with members from the Austin Cactus...
by Alice Liles | Aug 7, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
I wrote about my new Melocactus Salvadorensis back in November last year, “My New Melocactus,” November 3, 2022, and it had some small flowers on its cephalium, the structure on the top of the plant that grows tall and makes tiny, pretty pink flowers. When...
by Alice Liles | Jul 10, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
The grafted adenium that was a gift from my daughter-in-law just bloomed a lovely flower with two rows of petals, which is called a double-petaled adenium. It came without a tag, other than just Adenium, so I can’t identify it exactly. Adeniums are commonly called a...
by Alice Liles | Jun 22, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
I was invited to give a cactus presentation to the Highland Lakes Green Thumb group in Marble Falls last week. I had some interesting stops along the way and a fun surprise at the end of my talk which had a connection to Muleshoe. But of course, you’ll have to read to...
by Alice Liles | May 26, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
I came home from Saint Louis and the Mid-States Cactus and Succulent Conference in 2018 with a small Adenium arabicam. I wrote a blog about that little plant on November 6, 2018, “Tracy Vymola and her Love of Adeniums,” showing the step by step process she took us...
by Alice Liles | May 13, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
I bought two Echinocereus rigidissimus rubrispinus the other day, one with two buds in hopes of seeing cool flowers. And I did! See a cool flower, that is. But the nice thing about this cactus is that it is equally pretty without the flower. It also has cool...
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