by Alice Liles | Mar 8, 2014 | Blog, Signs of Spring
As I walked to the greenhouse yesterday, a spot of pink caught my eye. Sure enough, one of the Wyoming cactus was blooming, a sure sign Spring is actually coming, a much-surer sign of Spring that any Ground hog shadow. Or no shadow. I always get the signs confused....
by Alice Liles | Mar 1, 2014 | Cactus Care
Texas, along with many other states, has been in a drought for the last few years, so many I have lost count, and this winter was especially dry. And even though cactus and succulents are supposed to live in dry, arid conditions, mine took a deadly hit from this...
by Alice Liles | Feb 20, 2014 | Blooming Now
My wax echeveria just bloomed for the first time, so I thought I would share it with you. I have seen this plant referred to as echeveria wax, lipstick, agavoides, and ebony, so take your choice. I learned the hard way that it is prone to sunburning, so be aware and...
by Alice Liles | Feb 5, 2014 | Blooming Now
Well, not exactly a field, but a bit of color on a dreary winter day. We are caught in the prolonged series of cold fronts that you may also be experiencing, and I suspect that you, too, are good and ready for Spring to show up. But in the meantime, I can slip into...
by Alice Liles | Jan 21, 2014 | Blooming Now
I suspect I may have written about mammillarias before, but I never get tired of their pretty little halos of flowers. And they are blooming now, so I will share them with you again. All varieties of mammillaria flower but don’t all produce the circle of flowers;...
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