Sunday, November 20, 2016

Christmas Cactus

Full disclosure:  I'm not a houseplant person. 
I prefer to garden outside.  Any plant that requires water more than once a week or so won't make it in my house.

When I married Tony 34 years ago he had this rather ugly houseplant and a few others.  I killed all of them but this one.  I kept it in a low-light room and to me, this plant was just an odd,
homely greenish-brown plant.  

I never knew that I had a lovely Christmas Cactus! 

By chance I moved it into our well-lit office one fall 5 or 6 years ago.  In November, to my delight all these gorgeous red-pink blooms started appearing on it.  Now every year I expect the show to begin  just after Halloween.


This plant is very low maintenance, needs little water and lots of indirect light.  If you live in Indiana and would like a cutting, let me know!  It's easy to propagate.


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