As a houseplant expert, I'm often asked how to water a cactus. After all, it's one of those plants that looks happy, until suddenly it's shrivelled, has yellowing fluffy patches, has become lopsided ...

Learn simple year-round Christmas cactus care tips for watering, light, and temperature to ensure healthy blooms every ...

Learn the five signs of an overwatered Christmas cactus, how to save it from root rot, and how to water correctly to prevent ...

Repot Christmas cactus every three to four years in late winter or early spring—never while it’s blooming. Choose a pot about ...

Several questions were sent to me regarding cactuses. In general, the most common reason for the failure of cactus is watering too often. The second-most common reason for cactus problems is because ...

If your Christmas cactus has drooping leaves, light, water, soil, and environment could be to blame. Here's how to fix drooping leaves and make your plant happy.

I always assumed Clark Moorten watered the cactus at night because the Botanical Garden was closed. But now I'm thinking he had another big reason to set up his sprinkler on the agave and cactus to ...

A Christmas cactus is a tropical plant that blooms in late fall or early winter. Unlike desert cacti, it prefers indirect ...

Despite having the name cactus, Epiphyllum anguliger — aka the fishbone, ric rac or orchid cactus — does not need desert conditions to survive. In fact it is native to the forest understory of central ...

Euphorbia ingens, often called the candelabra cactus, gets its name ‘ingens’, meaning giant, referring to the eventual size the plant can grow to, not as you might have expected from the sharp spikes ...