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Here's how to repot your Christmas cactus so it continues to thrive for years to come. Dmytro Betsenko / Getty Images Repotting a Christmas cactus is a task that is frequently overlooked because this ...
Houseplants might not be top of your agenda this time of year, but there's more to festive foliage than holly, mistletoe, and poinsettias. The Christmas cactus is one of the best ways to introduce a ...
The Christmas cactus is a beautiful low-maintenance houseplant that blooms year after year just in time for the holidays. These long-lived plants can survive for decades and are often passed from one ...
Question: I have had a number of very large indoor grown Christmas cacti that would have been next to impossible to repot without breaking various pieces off. For years they bloomed profusely but ...
Now that you have typical plants down, how about cacti? Here's exactly how to care for a cactus, the sharpest houseplant of them all. Cacti don’t need to be sitting in the sun all day every day, but ...
In April 1905, David Fairchild wed his beloved Marian, and with a generous dowry from her father, Alexander Graham Bell, purchased 10 acres of wooded land outside of Chevy Chase, Md., to build their ...
The conditions of most homes are ideal for holiday cacti, but ensuring hours of uninterrupted darkness is key to seeing blooms. Holiday cacti are a type of cactus that blooms around specific holidays, ...
Whether you’ve kept a fiddle-leaf fig alive for years or you’ve killed more succulents than you can count, repotting a houseplant can be a daunting task. If you want your plant to thrive, though, it’s ...
Repotting a Christmas cactus is a task that is frequently overlooked because this forgiving, flowering succulent can live for years in less-than-ideal growing conditions. But there comes a time when ...