Caring for Christmas Cactus - Daves Garden Christmas cactus produce flower buds when the cycles of light and darkness tip into the winter cycle, with 12 or more hours of darkness signaling the plants that it is time to produce buds Most Christmas cactus flower during the holidays have been tricked into setting buds by the clever use of artificial lights and timers
Blue Cacti for Landscaping - Daves Garden Unlike some of the other blue cactus in my yard, this one is quite hardy (for southern California at least) and is one of the more carefree plants I own (left to right) Ferocactus glaucescens in a botanical garden, my own plant and flowers (left) Ferocactus glaucescens f nuda (right) Normal (spiny) variety Melocactus
PlantFiles: The Largest Plant Identification Reference Guide - Daves . . . It has white-petaled flowers with green sepals that open at night on long stalks with white hairs, scales and long reddish-brown spines at the base of the pointed flower stalk This cactus often forms shrubby or viney snakelike masses of spiny stems creeping over eachother and objects in a serpentlike, weedy tangle or mass
So thats NOT a Cactus??! Typical cactus shapes and spines (Ferocactus gracilis, group of columnar cacti, and Opuntia microdasys var albospina The primary culprits in this confusion are members of the family Euphorbiaceae, a family that has representatives all over the world However most of the ‘cactus-looking' forms are African plants Many Euphorbias are spiny and have thick, stout bodies, or are columnar
Pencil Cacti - The Stick Euphorbias - Daves Garden Euphorbia tirucalli (Pencil Cactus or Pencil Tree) This is the most commonly grown of all the Stick Euphorbias and for good reason It is probably the easiest Euphorbia to root, and to grow, and to keep alive in hot and cold weather (though of course it has its limits) It is one of the fastest-growing of all the succulents
Grow a Monkey Tail: Cleistocactus winteri colademono Cleistocactus winteri 'colodemono' is a subspecies of the golden rat tail cactus Sometimes labeled as Hildewintera colademononis, Cleistocactus colademononis, or Winterocereus colademononis, it has earned the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit This distinction denotes the plant's excellent performance following rigorous trials and observations over a period of time Meet the
Introduction to Yuccas - Daves Garden Yucca endlichiana in ground older plant in habitat (photo Cactus Jordi) Flowering plant (photo Cactus Jordi) Yucca faxoniana (syn Yucca carnerosana; Eve's Needle or Giant Spanish Dagger) This Texas Mexcian species is probably one of the most dangerous Yuccas having very long, rigid and very sharp deep green leaves