Cactus, Succulents, and Heavy Rain

by | Sep 2, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool

Muleshoe has had rain for the last seven days- August tends to be our monsoon season-and during those times when the water wasn’t falling from the sky, that sky was gray and overcast; no sunshine, which means that all my cactus and succulents, potted and in the...

Nelda Merriott 1934-2016

by | Aug 29, 2016 | Bright Lights

Muleshoe lost one of its most loyal supporters and tireless workers last week when Nelda Merriott died unexpectedly. She was 82. Obituaries give you all the basic family information: she as born April 1, 1934 in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Virgil and Ora LeBleu, the...

Lobivia and Rebutia Do Their Thing

by | Aug 26, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool

Over the course of the last three months I have enjoyed a variety of very different flowers, some which just happened to be all in the same pot. For example, look at these beauties on a lobivia I bought last year. In the same pot this little mammillaria plumosa...

The Trip to Colorado Springs- Getting There

by | Aug 23, 2016 | Bright Lights

Bill and I took a little trip to Colorado Springs to escape the heat and just be tourists for a few days. Pikes Peak and the Garden of the Gods were what we had in mind to see, but we stumbled upon some other trip-worthy stops along the way. We drove north through the...

Try Silky Thread Grass in Your Xeriscape Garden

by | Aug 19, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool

You may not have a cactus garden, but you might be wanting to do more xeriscaping in your garden, and if so, you might consider adding some Mexican feather grass, also called silky thread grass. I started out with some of this grass in a bed between the house and the...