how brave is the flower that breaks through cold earth in search of a sun who never made any promises never offe...

'Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes! ~William Wordsworth, "Lines Written in Early Spring," Lyrical Bal...

(A warning: If you have any propensity towards cactus love to begin with, moving to the desert will increase it exponentially!) A long-s...

Early this morning, just as the sun was rising at about 5.30am, I saw that my little clump of cacti (Echinopsis) was flowering, the early mo...