A saguaro doesn’t start flowering—providing a vital food source and reproducing—until it’s more than 35 years old. Around age 50, the cactus starts growing arms, which also flower.

More great flowering shrubs for the Desert Southwest: Little-leaf cordia (Cordia parvifolia) is covered with tiny white flowers in spring and fall. It is native to the Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts.

MONTY DON: Cactus makes perfect, just keep your desert flowers cool and dry By MONTY DON FOR MAILONLINE Updated: 17:30 EDT, 7 January 2011 ...

Climate Like the culture of the rain forest, humid conditions are essential. This flowering cactus plant thrives in a minimum of 50 percent humidity. Our homes in the winter tend to be very dry.

Organ pipe cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) is one of three species of bat‐pollinated columnar cacti that co‐occur along the Gulf Coastal region of the Sonoran Desert in northwestern Mexico. Its ...

By Rosie Romero Special to the Arizona Daily Star Jan 9, 2016 Updated Jun 6, 2016 ...

Stop and smell the cactus. Desert wildflowers are in bloom. But don’t wait too long to see them. With sparse rains, many of the flowers already are wilting in low elevation areas such as the … ...

For example, during the flowering season of November to January, the cactus needs humidity. This can be easily achieved by placing a shallow saucer of gravel under the a pot.

Give Christmas cactus lots of indirect light year-round, and don't allow the soil to dry out too much once flower buds form. Daytime temperatures between 60-69°F and nighttime temperatures in the ...

Inga and Werner Opitz had given up on their flowering cactus. It hadn’t bloomed in 16 years. “We were so upset,” said Inga, 89. “We were ready to throw it out.” The north Everett couple ...

Thirty miles north of Amman, Jordan, some 100 acres of bright green grass grew eight inches high. Around it lay dusty desert supporting a few tough shrubs. Soldiers of the Arab Legion last week ...