Texas Gardening: South Texas Growing Medium?, 1 by GD_Rankin

GD_Rankin wrote:
You know you're in Texas when . . . when you can fry an egg on the sidewalk and go swimming in the river in late December. But what about this? How many times have you ever seen this growing medium used successfully? (Oh and yes that's concrete.)

This is a close-up of what my little cousin calls "The Owiee Tree". It's about the same age as he is (now about 10 yrs) and the two kind of grew up together. They lived next door to me when he was just a toddler until just a few years ago, yet to this day he still calls it that.

It's not actually growing "in concrete" though it appears that it is. It's actually growing through a hole that was originally intended to be used as a drain pipe hole in the slab when it was poured. However, when my little cousin was over visiting, at that 'just learning to walk' age, the hole was somewhat of a tripping hazard. So, to keep him from having an accident I took a small tin can and placed a single section of a cactus plant I had in the can and then placed the can in the hole. I took him over to it and explained that the cactus would bite him if he touched it. He said oh owiee; hence the Owiee name. lol

Well that was about 10 years ago and it's still there to this day. I've seen cactus growing in trees in south Texas, always wondered just how it 'got up there', but never before have I seen anything growing in the middle of a concrete slab. Just wondered if anyone else has anything similar to share?

Hope ya'll enjoy,
GD