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companion plant and beyond

These little cob cacti are blooming today.  This one has a companion stack 
about a foot away and is in the edge of an abandoned (this year, anyway) 
iris bed carved out between the rocks.  They are scattered in the edges of 
several iris beds and throughout the yard and on the rocky hill.  They tend 
to bloom all at once for one day.  That was today.  Those in the way of 
mowers don't do great as you'd expect, but I count 14 of the fellows 
blooming among the bluebonnets on the hill.  They look pretty good for that 
day they choose to bloom.  Probably they will have all finished blooming by 
the weekend and it will be another year to wait for bloom.  They are neat 
little plants even when not in bloom.  This is one you can handle with your 
bare hands if you are careful.  There's another that blooms the same but 
puts on little rosettes of thorns that isn't as kind.  I always hate to mow 
over them, but like the bluebonnets, I just have to set parameters on where 
some things are allowed to grow with abandon.  Currently another cactus in 
the yard is blooming called Devil's Pin Cushion.  I'm getting far too many 
of those, but they bloom VANITY pink and then put on a cluster of red, red 
fruit right in the middle.  Some of those in the edge of the iris beds as 
well, but I did move those there.  A complete pain to weed around, sometimes 
literally a pain :).

Donald Eaves
donald@eastland.net
Texas Zone 7b, USA 


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