Coral Cactus Care

Overly wet plants and those that receive splashed mud on the foliage may experience, whose widespread feeding can diminish plant vigor and destroy the attractive leaves.in late winter to early spring.

Not only will you receive lots of flower color, but you'll fall in love with the plant's intense variety of foliage color too.) may also be known by alumroot. The spikes of tall, bell-shaped blooms is where the coral bells flowers get their name and are...

Although it will stand full sun and flowers most profusely in it, coral pea prefers cooler areas and it will burn if planted in full sun surrounded by reflective concrete or asphalt.Coral pea comes in dwarf varieties as well and is relatively disease...

Being the primary source of nutrition for many marine organisms, from sponges and corals to crustaceans, fish and mollusks, these heroic producers generally go unappreciated. A little red-faced, but healthy.We all have our favorites in the terrestrial...

These plants are basically leafless shrubs and trees and make for unique landscape and potted specimens. This is a difficult group of plants to make a lot of generalities about, as they vary quite a bit in their ease of growth, cold hardiness, tolerance...

Then do the total darkness thing about 4-6 weeks before the time blooming is desired, every night until buds form and the plants can be returned to their location near the window or table.

To see this baby in full bloom in December warms my heart. This article is aimed to show the reader the difference in a true Christmas cactus and other holiday cacti. To be able to differentiate between these cacti, you must look at their leaves or stem...

There are a number of named cultivars that the nursery trade has developed andbecause it is a forgiving plant to ship. In other words, this process will take most of the summer. Place the stem in your prepared potting soil that is slightly damp and press...

Once materials were in place, it came together.People have been using colchicine and radiation treatments since the 1940s to "encourage" new plant mutations and there are new techniques that allow us to select traits on the genetic level.

Transplanting a Zone 6 New England daughter into a zone 8 southwestern college. How much more comfort could a person ask for? Our flowers, first watered by my eyes the day before her birthday, in her garden in front of her home.

Sometimes we forget (at least I do) that they also can be great flowering plants. My primary interest in plants has rarely been in the flowers they make, which is one of the reasons I collect and grow ‘weird' plants (succulents and palms etc.)For most...

For those who don't know what I am talking about, this article is for you. Rarely do Euphorbia spines come from knobs as though the spines were poking out through the plant's surface (the way cactus spines always look).The spines of Pachypodiums, Alluaudias...

And their hybrids with Echeveria are even better. These are, in general, hardier than Echeverias and certainly fast growing and easy to start from cuttings (leaf or stem).Most tolerate full sun and a good deal of shade with a minimum incidence of rotting.I...

Succulents (including cacti) are among the best of all the plants to collect and grow in pots and in the garden and are certainly among my favorite plants.As if there weren't enough awesome, cool and bizarre succulents in cultivation to keep one fascinated...

The first flush of flowers is removed before they can set fruit. There is a disputed claim that Columbus brought the plant back to Spain after his first voyage. The second flush of flowers then produced the fleshier fruits that bring a higher price at...

Cactus come in all shapes and varieties though some do not look like typical cacti, or even like cacti at all. They have Euphorbia-like bodies, but definitely cactus-like flowers.In fact, from this group of plants it is not any clearer what makes a cactus...

Discard the sap. To prevent discoloration, cut a vitamin E gel capsule in half and squish the vitamin into the gel. Whole aloe vera leaves may also be wrapped and then frozen.Stand your aloe leaf cut side down in a glass for 15 minutes to allow the sap...

This world can never have enough love, happiness or cactus. Switch to weekly watering and watch it grow. Read on to learn how to grow cactus from cuttings.Choose your cactus. Any with thick, fat pads and spindly arms will grow from cuttings.Cut the bottom...

The prickly pear cactus guards its fruit well with long, sharp spines. Once you manage to harvest your fruit, you must remove the glochids and the skin prior to using or freezing it.

Most Haworthias will eventually offset and those are easy to separate and then one can have more of the same with minimal effort.I use a lot of rooting hormone… anytime roots come out of the soil with an injury, or I cut them on purpose separating an...

This article is an introductory guide to what one might expect to be blooming this time of year. March is still somewhat dominated by aloe flowers, but for pure mass of color, the Mesembs have taken over.Some of these ice-plant relatives blanket the gardens...

The Graptoveria hybrid 'Fred Ives' is one of those plants. Many inflorescences, if left alone, will eventually producethat quickly produce their own rootlets, providing yet another way for this plant to continue to reproduce.Flowering plant in fall (flowers...

Below is an introduction and discussion of some of these unusual plants. And it just grows through it all.Full, hot sun does make it look sad and can really damage it if it's not acclimated to such abuse.It is a plant that seems to prefer a bit of protection...

The following article serves as an introduction to this fascinating species of plant. This group of Crassulaceans has some of the most spectacular succulents as well as some of the most annoying weeds of all the succulent plants.Some Kalanchoes grow into...

The following photos are of aloes with cultivational or species names that start with the lettes 'D' through the letter 'L'. But the inflorescences are highly branched, and the plant is a branching one, so there is a massive number of flowers in winterthis...

And some have less than amazing flowers as well. The inflorescence of this plant is unique in being highly branched, very wide and having nearly one-sided, sloping racemes, usually of brilliant orange.

If they never flowered they would still be extremely popular plants for gardeners, collectors, landscapers and public gardens. They vary in size from barely 1" tall to over 40' tall and nearly as wide.