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May 5, 2023 Elizabeth

This is a tiny potato cactus and it's doing the thing! We had to believe in this tiny cactus for over a year. I bought some Michigan native cacti to try as houseplants last year. I left them in the package they arrived in for a ridiculous amount of time, so they started … [Read more...]

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