After your Christmas cactus has rooted, it’s time to help it adjust and thrive in its new home. Place the plant in bright, ...

Over the past few years several people, including one person at a recent prayer meeting, have asked me about the possibility of getting Christmas cactus or Schlumbergia truncata to re-bloom, which is ...

Two questions that get asked often during the holiday season are, "How do I get Christmas Cactus to bloom?" or "Why isn’t my ...

While the Christmas Cactus might be more well-known, it's time for the Thanksgiving Cactus to get its own time in the shade.

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 ...

Brighten winter with the vibrant blooms of a Christmas cactus. Learn how to care for this tropical beauty and keep it flowering year after year.

BOISE, Idaho — Even if you don’t consider yourself much of a gardener, here’s something that anybody can successfully make and grow. Garden master Jim Duthie shows us how to put together an indoor ...

A burst of color arrives just as the air turns cool and the days grow short. The Christmas cactus transforms ordinary ...

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 ...

Pencil cactus is a fitting common name for Euphorbia tirucalli, even though the plant would be useless for writing and is not really a cactus. A single plant looks like many slender, green pencils, ...

What would a botanical garden in the Southwest be without a cactus and succulent garden in it? That is what we have at the Gardens at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd. The ...

Scientists discovered how to study cactus movement without harm - by measuring the silent sway of these desert giants using ...