by Alice Liles | Apr 19, 2026 | Cactus Are Cool
I bought this Pachypodium succulentum x. bispinosum at the 2023 CSSA (Cactus and Succulent Society of America) convention in Colorado Springs. I wrote about it then and mentioned how the names given to cactus and succulents are based on their characteristics, in this...
by Alice Liles | Apr 6, 2026 | Cactus Are Cool
I ordered my Echinopsis hertrichiana from Huntington Gardens in 2020. It sort of sat the first couple of years, didn’t grow much, finally bloomed a couple of years ago. The last few years it has happily made babies, grown, and bloomed. I took one of the babies...
by Alice Liles | Apr 1, 2026 | Bright Lights
When I started teaching in Muleshoe at Watson Junior High, I joined Texas Classroom Teachers Association. Dorothy Beddingfield, who taught social studies at the junior high, was also a member of TCTA. Sometime during my first year or two here, she suggested, more...
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