A Thanksgiving cactus needs darkness, cool nights, and limited watering for six weeks before the holiday to bloom on time. Because it’s a rainforest plant, steady moisture, good drainage, and partial ...

Discover night-blooming plants like phlox and flowering tobacco and how their evening blooms and scents can transform your ...

Almost every grocery store or big box home store we walk into right now has a rack of what most people call Christmas cactus. But is it really a Christmas cactus or is it a Thanksgiving cactus? There ...

The holidays will be here before you know it, and that means time together with family and friends, beautiful decorations, delicious food, and (hopefully) a Christmas cactus in full bloom. Encouraging ...

For wildflower chasers, March, April and May mean bursts of magnificent color from seemingly mundane plants in the Mojave Desert. Blooms in burnt orange, fuchsia and soft yellow are gifts from native ...

Something beautiful and unusual is happening in the southern part of the state this summer. Thanks to above-average moisture that has set the stage for an epic wildflower season there and elsewhere in ...

The hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii) is a lovely small native cactus that has spectacular blooms. It comes in a number of varieties in the wild. The flowers are usually hot pink, 2-3 inches ...

Soon I’ll trek into the Mojave Desert, once again chasing cactus colors: strawberry hedgehog cactus on spiky gray columns, pale yellow pencil cholla flowers at sunset. I’ll return in May to see ...