Taking down your Christmas tree may leave your living room feeling a little empty. With these pretty indoor plants, you can ...
Most need to dry out completely before you water them again. If your cactus get soft and mushy, you've overwatered it, and it's unlikely to recover. Live and learn and head back to the plant store!
Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera x buckleyi), Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata), and Easter cactus (Rhipsalidopsis gaetneri) differ from one another and are named for the holiday when ...
Each stem segment of a Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncate) has 2-4 saw-toothed hooks along the margins. The stem margins on the Christmas cactus (Schlubergera x buckleyi) are more rounded.
Schlumbergera, or holiday cacti, are native to Brazil’s humid Latin American rainforests. Exported to Europe in the early 19th Century, Spanish Monks discovered the unique plant bursting with ...
I suspect there are quite a few more people on the planet who know that there are two separate plants known as Christmas cactus and Thanksgiving cactus than there are people who are able to ...