The Rusty Things Find Their Homes!

by | Oct 7, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool

I promised last week to share with you what I did with the rusty treasures I came home with from my raid on a friend’s junk pile. All but two pieces found a home in the cactus garden, where they will most likely stay. Once the pieces are placed, they just seem to work...

Two Surprise Blooms

by | Sep 22, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool

I discovered some blooms I wasn’t expecting while checking on everything. Thought I might as well share them with you. My lithops have bloomed before, but I like them and I don’t know that I have share this white one with you before. And even if I have, it never hurts...

Pruning the Pachypodiums, aka Madagascar Palms

by | Sep 8, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool

In a blog post on July 18, 2012, I introduced you to the fat plants pachypodium geayi and p. lamerii, also known as Madagascar palms. That was in 2012; by 2016 the two pachys I kept had grown a foot or more taller than me. They were outside this Spring when we had...

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...

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...