the trio of beloved flowering holiday cacti—Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus, and Easter cactus—cheers up a home on dark winter days. Although their lifespan varies, all three are long ...

You may be used to having a Christmas cactus in your home as a festive green and red, low-maintenance houseplant, but did you ...

Under the right conditions, Christmas ... and became Thanksgiving cactus. Schlumbergera russelliana, discovered in 1837, blooms between February and April and became the Easter cactus.

Christmas cactuses, and the closely related Thanksgiving and Easter cactuses, are not your standard cactus plants. Not only do these cactuses not produce spines, but they’re actually tropical ...

Now that the blooms of Christmas cactus are fading, this is a good time to talk about their care. Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera x buckleyi), Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata), and Easter ...

If you’d like to propagate your Christmas cactus, take longer stem cuttings that are three to five stem segments long.

Many have helped out in the years since. “The Christmas cactus has been known to flower anywhere from Thanksgiving to Easter. There is always great joy when the pink flowers bloom, especially ...

Conversely, Christmas cactus has phylloclades with more crenate (rounded) margins. Additionally, Thanksgiving cactus tends to hold its flowers more horizontally, while those of Christmas cactus ...

Yakama artist Leo Adams bought land in the shrub-steppe above Ahtanum Creek southwest of Yakima. He moved the shell of his ...

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 ... plant named the Easter cactus.