Houseplants might not be top of your agenda this time of year, but there's more to festive foliage than holly, mistletoe, and poinsettias. The Christmas cactus is one of the best ways to introduce a ...
Here's how to repot your Christmas cactus so it continues to thrive for years to come. Dmytro Betsenko / Getty Images Repotting a Christmas cactus is a task that is frequently overlooked because this ...
Prune a Christmas cactus right after it blooms, when it enters a new growth period extending its growth segments. Pruning ...
The benefit to propagating Christmas Cactus in water is that you can see how the roots of your cuttings. Choose clear plant ...
Skip the mums—add a Thanksgiving cactus to your space this fall. Here’s how to grow, care for, and get blooms from this ...
Whether you’ve kept a fiddle-leaf fig alive for years or you’ve killed more succulents than you can count, repotting a houseplant can be a daunting task. If you want your plant to thrive, though, it’s ...
At this time of year, the calls come in about repotting. Maybe your houseplants were on the patio, got great sunlight, great care and proper watering, and they are bursting out of their pots. They ...
Succulents should be repotted every two to three years, ideally during the spring. The process involves transferring the plant to a larger, ceramic pot with drainage holes, and then trimming any roots ...
If you held onto yours from last year—and you should—here's how to get another year of blooms from them. One of my favorite parts of spring is being able to finally put color back in the garden, and ...
However, if a plant has grown as large as you want it to be and would create problems if it grows much larger, you may decide to leave it pot-bound. As long as it stays reasonably healthy, keeping the ...