Random Rants and Prickly Plants

The Pregnant Onion, Albuca bracteata {formerly known as Ornithogalum caudatum, the botanical name was changed in 2009} is a South African ...

  Well, it's mushroom  season in Texas... cold autumn rains followed by warm autumn days result in rather fantastic displays in the la...

With more and more municipalities banning or limiting the plastic shopping bag, for various reasons, those canvas totes are becoming neces...

The Occupy the Cemetary/Zombie rights  movement has staged a sit-in at the flea market to protest the negative stereotype being perpetuated ...

This showed up on my email.  I have no idea where it's from, or who took it.  I like it.

well, I'm trying not to be so scattered but there we are.  Later today, I'll be  updating new pics on the little goth bob site... I...

Opuntia microdasys, and the varieties of the species, are common houseplants, often encountered in dish gardens or in small pots at big bo...

By here's a few pics I managed to take at the flea... Morning glories growing on the fence.   These are the wild varieties ...

Once upon a time, almost every cactus you see was called a Cereus.  This is generally how plant classification works... It starts very si...

hey folks... I'm sure some of you know about this already... but if you go to your stats page and see multiple views from places with w...