Fay Watson

I Love Christmas Cacti...

But I have never had any success with keeping it blooming through Christmas and alive into the next year to watch it bloom again.  I have several friends who have Christmas Cactus success.  So, before next Christmas I am going to learn the nuances of keeping one alive and getting it to bloom.

As a biologist who took plenty of botany, horticulture and physiology I know the importance of the circadian to the flowering of certain plants.  Until the plant is exposed to the right amount of dark it will not bloom.  Then there is the amount of water a plant needs and putting it in the right soil conditions. Almost seems like it is easier to have a pet than to try to cultivate a particular flowering plant (I know all plants flower - they have to have sex...by flowering I mean a houseplant that has a visually pleasing bloom).

Here are some sites that I want to save and revisit next November when the shops start selling Christmas Cacti...