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 ...

The Christmas cactus prefers a little humidity — unlike other cacti and succulents —as well as bright, indirect sunlight.

I find that I'm particularly drawn to landscapes adorned by cacti. Perhaps it's the eye-catching prickly silhouettes or maybe it's because they don't need a ton of upkeep — either way, there's just ...

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 ...

Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti are in the plant genus Schlumbergera and are native to tropical rainforests. Schlumbergera truncata is the Thanksgiving cactus. You can tell the difference between the ...

If you've got prickly pear cactus growing in your garden and you want to know what you can plant along side it, here are 9 ...

BOISE, Idaho — Even if you don’t consider yourself much of a gardener, here’s something that anybody can successfully make and grow. Garden master Jim Duthie shows us how to put together an indoor ...

If your garden yearns for crazy, colorful, drought-hearty plants, the Los Angeles Cactus and Succulent Society aims to satisfy at its first Fall Sale Sept. 16 in Encino. Expect professional growers ...

Pencil cactus is a fitting common name for Euphorbia tirucalli, even though the plant would be useless for writing and is not really a cactus. A single plant looks like many slender, green pencils, ...

(Scripps Howard)"I CONSIDER IT THE highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a ...

Permian High School art teacher Luis Trejo Fuentes is seeking cactus donations for the campus’ outdoor garden. Contributions have started coming in, but the garden is large, so the more the merrier.