Three similar plants, three different bloom times. Understanding these holiday cactus look-alikes helps you nurture their ...

Editor's Note: This story was initially published on Dec. 20, 2020. Under the right conditions, Christmas cacti are the holiday plants that keep blooming, and not just for years. These tropical plants ...

Give your favorite holiday plant fertilizer during spring and summer for yuletide blooms. Here's how often and when to fertilize a Christmas cactus.

DENVER — What started as about 10 little succulent and cactus plants has become quite a collection. I’ve been repotting some of my plants that had a growth spurt over the winter and propagating others ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shorter days and longer periods of darkness trigger Christmas cactus blooms. Here's how much sunlight your holiday plant needs each season.

One of the most delightful plants that we use to decorate for the season is the holiday cactus. View full sizeIllustration by Kenneth Harrison And yes, even though these plants don't possess spines, ...

The Christmas cactus requires some unusual growing conditions to thrive, but you can give yours a boost with the help of a ...

Florida's sunshine might be perfect for beach days, but getting a Christmas cactus to bloom here feels like convincing a ...