Tis the season for holiday cactuses, but can you tell them apart? Here's how to identify the differences between a ...

As the holiday draws near, garden centers and grocery stores fill up with brightly blooming plants called Christmas cactus. But many of these colorful plants are actually a close cousin, the ...

Christmas cacti don't need fertilizer year-round to produce beautiful blooms. Simply fertilize your plant monthly during its ...

"Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere." Mae West's words came to mind while reading an academic paper on cactus flowers which described them as "promiscuous" blooms. Perhaps cactus flowers ...

Last May I went to Knowles Canyon Overlook Campground to enjoy magnificent scenery. Quite unexpectedly, I stumbled across small beetles in cactus blooms and an unexpected ecological interaction. As ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Most scientists today agree that North America has four distinct desert regions: the Great Basin, ...

I was welcomed to my tent site in Chaco Culture National Historic Park by a handsome claret cup cactus. I had been traveling and hiking in New Mexico for two days, and although I had been looking for ...

Michael Bush thinks "Cactus Flower" is a funny show, and he hopes you think so, too. Bush thinks it's funny enough that he bought the rights to it, and he's producing a sort of test-run of the play at ...