by Alice Liles | May 17, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
I had the pleasure of working with my son AJ last week designing and planting a succulent garden. A client, Kelly McKinney who lives in Buda, Texas, wanted him to turn a forgotten vegetable garden into a succulent garden. When she mentioned succulents, he told her he...
by Alice Liles | Apr 29, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
Last time I told you about one of the two new plants I brought home from the TACSS meeting in San Antonio, the turbinicarpus lophoroides on the right. Let me tell you about the other one, an agave isthmensis. This picture was taken right after I brought them home in...
by Alice Liles | Apr 24, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
Last October I attended the fall seminar of the Texas Association of Cactus and Succulent Societies (“TACSS) in San Antonio (TACSS Fall Seminar in San Antonio,” October 21, 2016) and came home with two new plants I really didn’t need but couldn’t resist. This happens...
by Alice Liles | Apr 10, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
Mammillaria is one of the largest genus in the cactus family; over 200 identified so far. Most are native to Mexico, but they can also be found in the southwest United States, the Caribbean, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, and Honduras. They get their name from the...
by Alice Liles | Mar 18, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
Walked into the greenhouse last week and was greeted by this great big pink flower. So of course I gathered it up and took it outside for a better picture. Echinocereus pentalophus is, like all cactus, native to the Americas and found in northeastern...
by Alice Liles | Mar 10, 2017 | Cactus Are Cool
I know I have shared these colorful plants with you before, but they just outdid themselves this year, so I had no choice-had to sing their praises again. Kalanchoe blossfeldiana is native to Madagascar and is what’s known as a glabrous succulent; that is, it has a...
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