by Alice Liles | May 26, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
I came home from Saint Louis and the Mid-States Cactus and Succulent Conference in 2018 with a small Adenium arabicam. I wrote a blog about that little plant on November 6, 2018, “Tracy Vymola and her Love of Adeniums,” showing the step by step process she took us...
by Alice Liles | May 13, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
I bought two Echinocereus rigidissimus rubrispinus the other day, one with two buds in hopes of seeing cool flowers. And I did! See a cool flower, that is. But the nice thing about this cactus is that it is equally pretty without the flower. It also has cool...
by Alice Liles | May 2, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
Graptopetalum pentandrum superbum is one of those fleshy succulents with lovely color that everyone likes to mix with green succulents of various shades. And it has special little flowers that make it even better.The name graptopetalum means marked petals, the red...
by Alice Liles | Mar 29, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
My Mammillaria bocasana is covered in blooms. I had noticed buds when I watered last week and several of them opened. But then yesterday I was greeted with more flowers than I could count!This is one reason mammillarias are so popular, They are good bloomers. They are...
by Alice Liles | Mar 23, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
This is my second Pachypodium brevicaule ; I rotted the first one. And interestingly, when I researched this species again for this story, I read that they are in fact easy to rot! Then the article went on to say that grafted specimens are much easier to grow, grow...
by Alice Liles | Mar 16, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
Years ago I bought a start of this little plant that grows from bulbs, makes tiny white flowers, and to the uninitiated, sometimes just look like a batch of grass. But Drimia unifloria is a neat little plant that is unusual and adds a different texture to your...
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