by Alice Liles | May 2, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
Graptopetalum pentandrum superbum is one of those fleshy succulents with lovely color that everyone likes to mix with green succulents of various shades. And it has special little flowers that make it even better.The name graptopetalum means marked petals, the red...
by Alice Liles | Mar 29, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
My Mammillaria bocasana is covered in blooms. I had noticed buds when I watered last week and several of them opened. But then yesterday I was greeted with more flowers than I could count!This is one reason mammillarias are so popular, They are good bloomers. They are...
by Alice Liles | Mar 23, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
This is my second Pachypodium brevicaule ; I rotted the first one. And interestingly, when I researched this species again for this story, I read that they are in fact easy to rot! Then the article went on to say that grafted specimens are much easier to grow, grow...
by Alice Liles | Mar 16, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
Years ago I bought a start of this little plant that grows from bulbs, makes tiny white flowers, and to the uninitiated, sometimes just look like a batch of grass. But Drimia unifloria is a neat little plant that is unusual and adds a different texture to your...
by Alice Liles | Feb 28, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
I know I have shared this adenium with you before, but this year has been an exceptional year of blooming, so of course, I have to show it to you again!Adenium obeseum is native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and in its natural habitat grows to be tree size with...
by Alice Liles | Feb 17, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
Rhipsalis is a cactus that grows in trees in the rainforests of Brazil and other South American countries, so it is an epiphyte, one that supports itself in the crooks of branches of trees in rainforests. Unlike a parasitic plant that takes its nutrients and moisture...
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