It's disappointing if your Christmas cactus doesn't bloom during the winter season, but there are some easy tricks to ensure ...

Guarantee holiday blooms with these tips. 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, ...

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 ...

If ever there was a doubt about how much a plant can come to mean to someone, behold the humble Christmas cactus. Big on blooms and memories this time of year, the long-lived houseplants have a way of ...

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 ...

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 ...