The White Rhino Agave

by | Nov 8, 2022 | Cactus Are Cool

I told you about the melocactus I brought home from the TACSS meeting in Austin this October. I also came home with a new agave, the one commonly known as the white rhino, and the one a website labeled “Arguably the most coveted novelty of the genus.”Well! I had no...

My New Melocactus

by | Nov 3, 2022 | Cactus Are Cool

I came home from this year’s Texas Association of Cactus and Succulent Societies (TACSS) seminar with a Melocactus Salvadorensis, the first melocactus I have added to my collection. Native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America, this is...

Come Get a Peek at my New Book!

by | Oct 13, 2022 | Bright Lights

The Lubbock Book Festival sponsored by Literacy Lubbock will be Saturday and Sunday, October 15-16, at the Mahon Pubic Library, and I will be there! My second book is a work in progress right now, but I expect it to be ready before Christmas, and I want to give...

The TACSS Fall Seminar Finally Happened

by | Oct 9, 2022 | Cactus Are Cool

When the pandemic hit in 2020 and the Austin Cactus and Succulent Society was to be the host club for the Texas Association of Cactus and Succulent Societies, or TACSS as we all refer to it, the event had to be put on hold till the world got well. So after several...