While low light levels trigger flowering, fertilizing Christmas ... from prickly desert cacti. While desert cactuses are commonly fertilized with a cactus or succulent fertilizer, holiday cactuses ...

Too much or too little water When to water a Christmas cactus is different from other types of cactus that evolved in the ...

The Christmas cactus prefers more water than its desert cousins and it is not drought ... the flowers begin to bloom in the winter. During flowering, you can resume feeding the plants on a monthly ...

A desert icon, the imposing and inspiring ... appear on the tips of the long arms of the cactus starting as early as late April, but peak flowering usually happens during May and June.

Each year in the late spring, white blossoms emerge in the desert ... on the tips of the long arms of the cactus starting as early as late April, but peak flowering usually happens from late ...

A saguaro doesn’t start flowering—providing a ... eyeliner even for a day working in the desert and whose tattooed forearms are embedded with cactus spines, brings an infectious enthusiasm ...

Here’s how it works. For the first time in a decade, plants in the Atacama Desert have started flowering in the middle of winter, covering a portion of the driest desert on the planet in white ...