Want to add a pop of springtime color to your home? The Easter cactus is the perfect pick, bursting with gorgeous pink, red, or orange blooms just in time for spring. Unlike its prickly, heat-loving, ...

The schlumbergera, also known as a Christmas, Thanksgiving or Easter cactus, are hugely popular during winter. The flowers that bloom are incredibly festive, and can brighten up any room. According to ...

Everyone is familiar with the Easter lily, but there’s another beautiful Easter plant that’s not well known. On this edition of Get It Growing, LSU AgCenter horticulturist Dan Gill introduces you to ...

Lilies are a common Easter plant, adorning homes and churches across the Southeast during the spring. But there’s another lesser-known holiday beauty that also blooms around the time of Easter. Known ...

How well do you know the three different holiday cacti? Can you name them? Holiday Cacti are three different cacti succulents that have leafless, green jointed segmented stems (plylloclades), that are ...

Does your Christmas cactus bloom before Thanksgiving? Maybe it starts budding in February or it blooms periodically throughout the year but not in December. Is your cactus confused, or are you? The ...

Easter cactus plants (Rhipsalidopsis gaetneri) are displaying flowerbuds now. Provide bright, indirect light, and water when the soil becomes dry. Propagate with large, warm-season stem cuttings.

Q: I have a nice size Christmas cactus that I have had for six or seven years and transplanted into a larger pot two years ago. I keep it at a front south-facing window and it seems to be doing quite ...

Years ago, I had one of those spineless cactuses that once a year splash colorful flowers out the ends of their flat, arching stems. Such plants are usually named for when they are supposed to bloom: ...

Christmas cacti don't need fertilizer year-round to produce beautiful blooms. Simply fertilize your plant monthly during its ...