Rooting your Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera x buckleyi) cuttings can be a rewarding way to propagate this holiday plant. The process allows you to have more of these beautiful, blooming cacti to ...
Brighten winter with the vibrant blooms of a Christmas cactus. Learn how to care for this tropical beauty and keep it flowering year after year.
Step 1: Get the Perfect Cutting — "Make sure you are taking cuttings from a mature, healthy parent plant," says Lina Cowley, ...
The striking flowers of the plant, commonly called the Christmas cactus, may catch your attention in stores and nurseries around this time of year. Their bell-shaped blooms in shades of red, pink, ...
Christmas cactus is one of those holiday plants that people are able to grow year after year. Part of the fun of growing them is to get them to flower again during future Christmas seasons. However, ...
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Over the past few years several people, including one person at a recent prayer meeting, have asked me about the possibility of getting Christmas cactus or Schlumbergia truncata to re-bloom, which is ...
Christmas cactus plants are also referred to as holiday cacti and include Thanksgiving and Easter cactus plants. Christmas cacti need different watering schedules depending on the season to stay ...
Just go to any garden center this time of year and the impulse aisles will be full of plants that can be given as gifts. Rarely do these plants come with instructions and often don’t make it long past ...
Since we’ve been on kind of a Christmas horticultural theme lately, what about Christmas cacti? While a Christmas cactus is a popular holiday gift, there are actually a variety of holiday cacti to ...