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 ...

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 ...

This cactus blooms in spring and summer and happens to look great when suspended in hanging baskets where its trailing habit ...

A. A little extra care will help bring your Christmas cactus back to full bloom next year. Although a Christmas cactus can adapt to low light, it will produce more abundant blooms if you know how to ...

Christmas cactus is one of those holiday plants that people are able to grow year after year. Part of the fun of growing them is to get them to flower again during future Christmas seasons. However, ...

Steve Bowdoin is the Ethel M Cactus Garden’s garden curator — and self-proclaimed pincushion. Since September, Bowdoin and his team and have been stringing holiday lights on the garden’s cactuses, ...

(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 ...

Oct. 27—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 ...