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The Aftermath: Manchester United Flower Show 2021
Since its start five years ago, the Manchester United Flower Show at the gallery hasn’t always been smooth. It ran well on its first year at the old Valley View space, but it was cancelled in 2017 while we tried … Continue reading
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The Manchester United Flower Show 2020: It’s ALIVE!
Well, we had a few technical difficulties, but the Manchester United Flower Show is live on Twitch. The next tour starts at 8;00 Central Time, so hie thee hence.
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The Return of the Manchester United Flower Show 2020
Sometime back in the mists of the Late Cretaceous, the plan was to host a special gallery open house in April that took advantage of blooming season. With one known exception, carnivorous plants bloom like any other angiosperm, with the … Continue reading
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New Triffid Ranch Events – April 2021
Because people are already asking about upcoming events at the gallery, the Eventbrite listings for both next weekend’s Porch Sale and the Manchester United Flower Show on April 25 are now live, so feel free to share them early and … Continue reading
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Manchester United Flower Show: Cancelled
This is the first time in four years that a scheduled gallery event has had to be cancelled, but this is the first time I’ve caught a stomach bug like this before an open house, and you do NOT want … Continue reading
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The 3rd Annual Manchester United Flower Show: Early Days
What’s probably the last freeze of the season just finished passing through, Daylight Savings Time starts this coming Sunday, and experts are predicting what may be the greatest explosion of bluebonnets and other Texas wildflowers seen in generations. (No sightings … Continue reading
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Have a Safe Weekend
Well, enough disasters in the past few years have prevented the Manchester United Flower Show gallery exhibition from running, so let’s hope that the real disasters stay away from this weekend. If you can make it, we’ll see you on … Continue reading
“Overture, Turn the Lights…”
There’s always plenty of time for preparation, until there isn’t. This weekend’s Oddities & Curiosities Expo in Dallas’s Fair Park kicks off the Texas Triffid Ranch show season, and that season will be going full-bore until November this year. Come … Continue reading
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Have a Safe Weekend
After the last three weekends, it’s time to stay home for a little bit. The first Triffid Ranch Porch Sale of the season opens this Sunday at 10:00 out in front of the gallery, and I’ll keep the tent up … Continue reading
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State of the Gallery: April 2021
Ah, it’s not an April without drastic environmental and social change, usually with multiple situations happening at once. April 2021 keeps on keepin’ on, and it’s only halfway finished. Before getting into details on the gallery, please note a very … Continue reading
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The Aftermath: The First Porch Sale of 2021
So last week’s Triffid Ranch Porch Sale didn’t work out, mostly due to intense side-effects from receiving my second Moderna vaccination, so it was time to start over. This time, a combination of spectacularly good weather, including unseasonably but much-appreciated … Continue reading
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“Ooh! Have we got a video?”
Well, that was an interesting weekend. Technical issues, getting people over to the channel, and the realization that a virtual open house doesn’t have to run for hours the way a meatspace one does…it was harrowing and more than a … Continue reading
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Upcoming Events: The Second Annual Manchester United Flower Show and Other Vagaries
One classic comment about life in Texas states “If you don’t like the weather, hang on five minutes. This ties directly to a less commonly stated but equally apt phrase, “Don’t count on Texas weather.” Getting the reminder that some … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Over Texas, International Carnivorous Plant Society, Manchester United Flower Show, road trip, shows, Texas Frightmare Weekend
The Aftermath: Leap Day 2020 Open House
Even despite its temporal brevity, this was a long February, so holding a gallery open house on February 29, the Day That Stretches, made perfect sense. The weather was wonderful, the company the same, and the gallery was full of … Continue reading
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Have a Great Weekend
The third Manchester United Flower Show is this weekend, and between this and the show last weekend…
The Aftermath: The Last Autumn Open House of 2021
It was quiet, and it was concise. The beginning of November is always a relatively quiet time, when cooler weather encourages everyone to stay in and bolster themselves before the holiday season starts. As such, the last autumn open house … Continue reading
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The Aftermath: March 2021 Carnivorous Plant Gallery Tour
If any one good thing came out of the kidney stone of a year that was 2020, it’s discovering that that increasing the number of Triffid Ranch events in a month doesn’t “dilute the brand” or similar MBAspeak. If anything, … Continue reading
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Texas Triffid Ranch Show Season 2021: And so it begins
As it turns out, the 2021 season begins the way the 2020 season ended: with a LOT of activity. We’re still seeing reschedulings, rearrangements, and a lot of “do we risk waiting another week in the hopes that the show … Continue reading
COVID-19 Schedule Changes
The best-laid plans, and all that. The old Chinese curse about living in interesting times definitely applies through this month, and apparently beyond. The news about the Dallas County shelter-in-place order requiring all residents to stay at home unless conducting … Continue reading
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The Aftermath: Spooky Science on Tap 2019 at the Fort Worth Museum of Science & History
Remember my mentioning earlier in the year that 2019 was going to be the big year for the Triffid Ranch stretching its legs? Well, an opportunity presented itself at almost the literal last minute, as with the Perot Museum in … Continue reading
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The State of the Gallery: March 2021
Enthusiasts of old arcade games may remember the short lifespan of virtual-reality shooter games in the early 1990s. The most common was a contraption where each player stood atop a small platform, wearing a helmet and a chest rig with … Continue reading
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Welcome To Your Career In The Arts
For the last several years, I freely admit that I blatantly stole a beautiful concept from the artist and musician Steven Archer, famed for his involvement with Ego Likeness, Hopeful Machines, and Stoneburner. In addition to his other endeavors, any … Continue reading
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Winter Carnivore Cleanups – Frail Triggerplants
Backstory: it’s January, we don’t have any distractions, and the plants need us. Therefore, it’s time to discuss methods to clean up carnivorous plants for spring. For details, go back to the beginning. Carnivorous plant enthusiasts tend to be a very sedate … Continue reading
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The State of the Gallery: March 2018
As regular readers might note, you didn’t get a state of the gallery update for February, mostly due to gallery-related distractions. Of course, February also didn’t get a full moon falling anywhere within it, either, which just meant one more … Continue reading
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State of the Gallery: April 2020
A solid month after the COVID-19 lockdown started, and everyone understands my hometown’s unofficial motto: “So…aside from THAT, Mrs. Kennedy, what do you think of Dallas?” For those having issues with shelter-in-place orders, I sincerely sympathize and empathize with your … Continue reading
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State of the Gallery: April 2018
Nearly a third of the way through the year, and April 2018 is already shaping up to be a lot less exciting than April 2017. Of course, this time last year involved frantic shelf-installing and box-unpacking after the move from … Continue reading
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Tagged Galleries at Midtown, gallery, Leiber, Manchester United Flower Show, shows, Texas Frightmare Weekend
The Texas Triffid Ranch Occasional Newsletter and Feedlot Clearance Sale – #28
For newcomers, this is a semi-regular newsletter from the Texas Triffid Ranch, Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery. Feel free to forward early and often, and to subscribe if you haven’t already. Installment #28: Nancy Crawford (1933-2021) My mother-in-law Nancy died … Continue reading
Manchester United Flower Show 2016
And since we’re going through archives this week, it’s about time to bring out the results of the Manchester United Flower Show presented at the Triffid Ranch gallery last April. Since our spring was a bit off, the Sarracenia blooms … Continue reading
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Upcoming Events: The Manchester United Flower Show
It’s been touch-and-go for several weeks, but we can be reasonably sure that winter is over in the Dallas area. We didn’t get the massive dump of snow at the beginning of March that’s been typical for the previous two … Continue reading
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State of the Gallery: January 2018
And the holiday season is over. Well, that’s not completely true: we can’t forget the importance of February 2, when Sid Vicious rises from his grave, looks down for his shadow, and learns if he has to wait six more … Continue reading
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On 2017
2017. Oh, where do we start? Talking about the new gallery after having to move out of the old one is definitely an “Aside from THAT, Mrs. Kennedy, what do you think of Dallas?” situation, but it’s a perfect summation … Continue reading
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Have a Great Weekend
Well, it’s been an interesting week. Besides getting everything ready for the Manchester United Flower Show next weekend and Texas Frightmare Weekend at the end of the month, the Triffid Ranch now has some late summer fun on the schedule … Continue reading
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Bloomapalooza 2013: the best-laid plans
The person who first described March as “coming in like a lion and going out like a lamb” apparently slept through July every year. This one in particular keeps getting better and better. Among other things, my niece Hailey and … Continue reading
Upcoming shows, probably not involving the Triffid Ranch
In every hobby and business, you get years where the calendar is as bereft of excitement as a terrestrial radio playlist. Other years, you’re practically tripping over exciting events and opportunities. 2013 is one of those years where I’m going … Continue reading
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Lunch With Garden Writers: oh, the humanity
On very topical notes, I have to admit that Today’s Garden Center magazine has a brilliant method of attracting press coverage for garden stores, by inviting local garden writers to lunch to let them look around. I love the idea. … Continue reading
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Mad Max Beyond Cold Comfort Farm
When asked, more and more rarely these days, why I gave up the glamorous and profitable worlds of science fiction writing and weekly newspaper journalism in favor of horticulture, I’m honest. I tell the interrogators that it’s all about the … Continue reading
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Have A Great New Year’s Eve
The movie from which this comes, Get Crazy (1983), alternates between silly and point-blank dumb at times, but it’s still my baseline for New Year’s Eve live music events. I’ll also warn you all that I see no reason why … Continue reading
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Thursday is Resource Day
It’s been a little while since the last time we had a good “Thursday is Resource Day” entry, and this one probably won’t be a good one. It, however, should be enough to get everyone through until the next one, … Continue reading
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“The holiday horror…the horror…”
For those who haven’t met Mary of Black Walnut Dispatch in your forays across botanical cyberspace, I regret that she isn’t my little sister. Anyone with as much of an appreciation for unmutilated crepe myrtles as she deserves an emergency … Continue reading
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I figure that only a few people would find this entertaining, but I have to ask. Considering the foofarol that goes into the Chelsea Flower Show every year, why isn’t there a competing Arsenal Flower Show to keep the horticulture … Continue reading
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“The garden hooligans are loose!”
Of particular note in the news from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show is that Dame Helen Mirren has a new Nepenthes cultivar (of the hybrid Nepenthes spathulata x spectabilis) named after her, courtesy of Borneo Exotics. This, of course, goes … Continue reading
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