Monday, February 15

Colorado Bend State Park

Colorado Bend State Park
Colorado Bend State Park
Echinocereus coccineus (Scarlet hedgehog cactus) growing not in the ground but rather on the top of a rock that has collected leaf litter from Ashe juniper trees in the area.



Horse Crippler Cactus
Echinocactus texensis (Horse Crippler Cactus)



Prairie celestials
Nemastylis geminiflora (Prairie celestials)

Horse Crippler Cactus




Nine-banded Armadillo
Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)



Blue curls flower
Since this Phacelia congesta (Blue curls flower) likes cactus type soils I think it would make a good cactus garden companion plant.  When it loses its graceful beauty post flowering it can be pulled up leaving at least one plant to produce the next years seeds that will grow during the winter and be ready to flower again in the spring.




Lace hedgehog cactus
Echinocereus reichenbachii (Lace hedgehog cactus).



Colorado Bend State Park
Gorman Falls - Quite impressive for the middle of Texas! given a little rain.

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