A gardener recently asked me why her Christmas cactus bloomed before Thanksgiving. My short answer was that it was likely a Thanksgiving cactus, which normally blooms between Halloween and ...

Botanists from the Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, near Tucson, Arizona, have recently discovered that the cardón cacti have a "trioecious" breeding system. This means that different cacti have ...

Christmas cactus diseases aren’t common but can quickly prove fatal. Fungal and bacterial diseases spread throughout the plant, and if treatment is not swift, those show-stopping holiday flowers will ...