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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may be used to having a Christmas Cactus in your home as a festive green and red, low-maintenance house plant, but did you ...

How well do you know the three different holiday cacti? Can you name them? Holiday Cacti are three different cacti succulents that have leafless, green jointed segmented stems (plylloclades), that are ...

A gardener recently asked me why her Christmas cactus bloomed before Thanksgiving. My short answer was that it was likely a Thanksgiving cactus, which normally blooms between Halloween and ...

Did your Christmas cactus bloom before Thanksgiving this year? If so, you likely are the proud plant parent of a Thanksgiving cactus, not a Christmas cactus. A Thanksgiving cactus normally blooms ...

Did I really see a rack of poinsettias in an Outside supermarket last week? I did. How could that be? We are still eating leftover Halloween candy! Thanksgiving is the next holiday and cacti ...

That pot of star-shaped flowers you picked up at the garden store might not actually be the Christmas cactus you thought it was. Holiday cacti are well-known for their longevity, but they can be a bit ...

It’s not unusual for a single Christmas cactus plant to be passed down from generation to generation because they’re long-lived and rather easy plants to grow. Norman Winter TNS I remember the large ...

As the weather warms up, plant lovers everywhere get excited for their spring flowers to burst into bloom. If you don't have a garden or patio, or no space on the balcony, growing flowering plants can ...

Easter cacti require 8-12 weeks of short days, which is why they bloom in the spring, as opposed to Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti, which require about six weeks of short days. The Thanksgiving ...