by Alice Liles | Oct 21, 2016 | Cactus Are Cool
I spent the day Saturday at the San Antonio Garden Center with other cactus lovers from around the state to attend the Texas Association of Cactus and Succulent Societies’ Fall Seminar and thoroughly enjoyed myself. I may know more about cactus and succulents than the...
by Alice Liles | Sep 15, 2014 | Blooming Now
If you are not familiar with using succulents for a touch of color, may I recommend ice plant, dew plant, and Autumn Joy sedum. The advantages are that they don’t wilt when you take trip for a few days and have no one to water them, they grow relatively...
by Alice Liles | Nov 30, 2012 | Cactus Care
If depriving cactus of light is the worst thing you can do to it, not watering it is the second worst. For the uninitiated, I think this is the way the reasoning goes: cactus live in the desert; deserts are dry; therefore this cactus can stay dry and doesn’t need...
by admin | Oct 30, 2012 | Bright Lights
If you read last week’s blog, “Death of an Agave,” you know that my oldest, biggest agave ended its life by blooming. But what I didn’t mention is that besides blooming to procreate, agaves also produce babies, called pups, and I found eight that had hidden under...
by admin | Oct 25, 2012 | Bright Lights
April 4, 2012 – My worst fears were answered; my oldest, biggest agave was gearing up to bloom. Normally, a cactus/succulent enthusiast looks forward specimens blooming. Well, I will certainly enjoy this bloom, but agaves are monocarpic, which means...
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