Some plants are easier to propagate than others, and the Rhipsalis baccifera, otherwise known as the Mistletoe cactus, is one ...

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

Effortlessly propagate your Thanksgiving cactus with simple stem cuttings or root division, to create healthy new plants that ...

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, ...

Their leaves differ slightly, with segmented, broad leaves featuring small bristles. Flowers have more defined, star-shaped ...

(The desert’s ‘skin’ is disappearing—tiny lab-grown plants could save it.) A hummingbird surveys the flowers of an octopus cactus, native to Mexico. The plant grows a thicket of thorny ...

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 ...

“The mechanical method is only effective on isolated plants or small infestations. But for cactus, any plant parts dropped during clearing will root and establish new plants,” he sai ...