A colorful plant in full bloom is a great gift for any person on your holiday shopping list. While the poinsettia remains the most popular blooming plant for the holiday season, one of the most ...

Plants give me a lot of peace; having them around me allows me to unwind. I have been a horticultural advisor with the Royal Horticultural Society for more than 12 years and during that time, one of ...

While visiting a friend this week, I noticed a huge Christmas cactus in a hanging basket. The plant was started from a leaf cutting of a plant that had been with the family for many years. Though the ...

The Christmas cactus is an iconic plant you’ll see everywhere at the holidays. With their handsome, notched foliage and exotic-looking flowers, these handsome plants can live for decades. (Some up to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Recently, a good friend of mine sent me a photo of a gorgeous Christmas cactus he had just bought that was absolutely covered in red blooms.

Did the spiky showoff with brilliant pinks, purples and reds catch your eye as it dangled from a hanging pot in the local greenhouse? If you’re the proud owner of a flowering cactus, you’ll find ...

A quick show of hands, how many of us have a “Christmas” cactus withering away in our homes? With fascinating information, ...

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Gardeners, we are once again experiencing brisk weather, though it’s cold to me and looks as though it’ll be “hanging around” for more than a week. In preparation of rainy, colder temperatures, my ...

The ORCHID cactus might be called the Cinderella of the garden world. Most of the year the plant, with disheveled, arched, trailing branches, is easy to ignore. But from February through June, ...