Succulents are often labeled low maintenance, yet many popular varieties benefit from occasional pruning to stay healthy, ...

MANSFIELD - For most of the year, the night-blooming cereus stands in a corner of Judy Theisen's sun room. The towering plant, which is more than six feet tall, attracts serious attention in late June ...

Keep your Christmas cactus healthy and full by removing some of the segments. Pruning encourages branching and can produce ...

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, steady moisture, good drainage, and partial ...

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 ...

A good time to pinch or prune your plant to shape it and encourage branching is in early spring, when new growth is starting. During the growing season, from April through September, fertilize your ...

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 ...

When it comes to decking the halls for the winter holiday season, we not only bring out the boughs of holly — whatever those are. We also often bring out the tropical plants, making it more ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...