Despite their prickly appearance, cacti make a great addition to any home and garden space. With their diverse shapes, sizes and colors, these desert-loving plants thrive in various environments, ...

Proper Christmas cactus care – including attentive watering, the right light levels, balanced fertilization, and temperature management – is key to encouraging blooms and keeping your plant healthy ...

A Christmas cactus can suffer from certain pests that may cause wilting. "Pests such as mealybugs, fungus gnats, spider mites ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." The Christmas cactus is everywhere during the holiday season, with good reason. It's a blooming ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The Christmas cactus is a hybrid epiphytic plant, prized for its flat, segmented green stems that ...

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

On my living room floor once sat a clerodendron plant, a gift that became an indoor oasis of lush greenery and clusters of red-tipped white flowers. Problem was, I had to tiptoe among its sprawling ...

Is it really a cactus? Yep, it may not look like it has anything in common with cousins like the prickly, giant Saguaro of the Sonoran desert, but the colorful “Christmas cacti” on sale everywhere ...

Right now, 2423 Langford St. isn’t much more than a gravel lot with some patches of grass. There is a tent in the back corner serving as a greenhouse, a hint of what’s to come. In one of the few ...