by Alice Liles | Jan 28, 2024 | Cactus Are Cool
The Highland Lakes Native Plant Society invited me to give a talk on landscaping with drought-tolerant plants, so of course, I said yes. The meeting would be on January 20 at the Marble Falls Public Library, a mere ten minutes from our house at Lake LBJ, which meant I...
by Alice Liles | Jan 7, 2024 | Cactus Are Cool
I came home from the MId-States Cactus and Succulent Conference in 2022 with a desire to add a dorstenia to my collection. Mike Hellmann gave a presentation on the species and donated one to the rare plant auction which brought $750! So naturally, I wanted one, too....
by Alice Liles | Dec 2, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
I have had my Espostoa melanostele from back in the time when I foolishly failed to keep up with pertinent information on my collection, so that means it has to be over ten years old-well over ten years old. And when I got it, I do remember it was just a clump of two...
by Alice Liles | Aug 21, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
The Cactus and Succulent Society of America (CSSA) held its biennial convention in Colorado Springs this year. Here’s how it went. I arrived July 12 at the Colorado Springs Marriott to register and get settled in. I met up with members from the Austin Cactus...
by Alice Liles | Aug 7, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
I wrote about my new Melocactus Salvadorensis back in November last year, “My New Melocactus,” November 3, 2022, and it had some small flowers on its cephalium, the structure on the top of the plant that grows tall and makes tiny, pretty pink flowers. When...
by Alice Liles | Jul 10, 2023 | Cactus Are Cool
The grafted adenium that was a gift from my daughter-in-law just bloomed a lovely flower with two rows of petals, which is called a double-petaled adenium. It came without a tag, other than just Adenium, so I can’t identify it exactly. Adeniums are commonly called a...
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