They may be a bit on the picky (and prickly) side, but when you're armed with helpful information, you can have luck growing cactus indoors. In order to have a successful indoor cactus, it's important ...

The popularity of cacti and succulents has made these once-specialty plants widely available and introduced a new generation ...

A Christmas cactus is a tropical plant that blooms in late fall or early winter. Unlike desert cacti, it prefers indirect ...

Repot Christmas cactus every three to four years in late winter or early spring—never while it’s blooming. Choose a pot about ...

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 ...

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, ...

It's beginning to look a lot like cactus. Or Christmas. Or Christmas cactus. Given our Mojave Desert location, traditional evergreen Christmas trees are hardly native flora. But, when it comes to ...

(Scripps Howard)"I CONSIDER IT THE highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a ...

If your garden yearns for crazy, colorful, drought-hearty plants, the Los Angeles Cactus and Succulent Society aims to satisfy at its first Fall Sale Sept. 16 in Encino. Expect professional growers ...

Do you think Christmas cactus is a good gift for some one who enjoys gardening? I believe that a Christmas cactus plant would be an excellent gift for a gardener who does not already have one. In fact ...