For both young and old cactuses, she says, the Sonoran Desert is “the perfect framework for saguaros to grow and to survive and to live”. But in the heat island of Phoenix, life is different.

Garden: Choosing and caring for real Christmas trees The Easter cactus (Hatiora gaertneri) only blooms in the spring.Complicating this understanding of the holiday cactus bloom schedule is the ...

Garden: Choosing and caring for real Christmas trees The Easter cactus (Hatiora gaertneri) only blooms in the spring.Complicating this understanding of the holiday cactus bloom schedule is the ...

The garden is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. The Prickly Fruit Tasting Tour is 1:30-3 p.m. Oct. 18 and costs $20 per person.

Steve Bowdoin is the Ethel M Cactus Garden’s garden curator — and self-proclaimed pincushion. Since September, Bowdoin and his team and have been stringing holiday lights on the garden’s ...

According to Ethel M, the holiday Cactus Garden will be illuminated nightly from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m. from Nov. 3 until Dec. 31. Featuring over a million Christmas lights, ...

Getting your holiday cactus to bloom again next year is simple. This plant is triggered to bloom by getting more than 12 hours of darkness and temperatures below 65 degrees.

Care tips during the winter and beyond. So here is how you can get them to bloom. After the blooms have fallen, a Christmas cactus needs to have a period of rest and should be kept in medium light ...

Oct. 27—Permian High School art teacher Luis Trejo Fuentes is seeking cactus donations for the campus' outdoor garden. Contributions have started coming in, but the garden is large, so the more ...

Both Thanksgiving cactus and Christmas cactus are short-day plants, meaning they flower when days become shorter in length (eight to 10 hours) and nights are longer (12-14 hours).

Christmas cacti are not only popular holiday gift plants, but they are also the subject of frequent debate among gardeners. There appears to be much confusion about these unique tropical cacti ...

Q. I would like to know, how do you get Christmas cactus to bloom? – O.S., Floyds Knobs, Indiana A. A little extra care will help bring your Christmas cactus back to full bloom next year. Although a ...