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As the holiday season comes upon us you may want to decorate your home with some lovely colorful flowering plants. Besides poinsettias, there are holiday cacti that have flowers that may be white, ...

Christmas cacti are known for their elegant, arcing foliage and vivid tropical blooms that appear in late fall or early ...

Blooms last two to four months but require a dormant stage with lower light and cooler temperatures to flower again. Watering ...

The houseplant that blooms during the holidays can live for more than 100 years and is often passed down from generation to ...

Few plant families are as iconic as the resilient, spiky cactus, thriving in the driest deserts and as well as decorating our ...

Have you see holiday cactus for sale in stores this season? This is the time of year when they become readily available. One ...

Here's how to care for a Thanksgiving cactus, a low-maintenance tropical plant with colorful flowers that blooms just in time ...

Even though it's traditionally known as the Christmas cactus, this isn't its official name. Often described as either the Schlumbergera Truncata or Schlumbergera x buckleyi, the vivid houseplant ...

Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti prefer slightly acidic, well-draining soil because it helps plants absorb and retain vital ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...