Cacti may not get all the attention of other houseplants such as the flashy Swiss cheese plant or the hard-to-kill snake plant, but they can be a great addition to your garden, indoors and out. With ...

Set in Southern California, my HO scale layout includes a Southern Pacific train order office surrounded by a desert scene. Although this arid landscape has sparse vegetation, my scene needed two ...

There is a rare spiny, gray-green plant that produces beautiful flowers of practically glowing hot pink colors in March and April, and impressively, it can grow in areas that receive ...

With our long, hot summers and drought seemingly becoming the norm, many home gardeners are on the lookout for water-efficient plants. Although often overlooked, the cacti found in North and South ...

A group of cacti species native to a remote Chilean desert has been poached to near extinction, thanks in part to social media crazes continents away. According to a new report from the International ...

As the holiday season comes upon us you may want to decorate your home with some lovely colorful flowering plants. Besides poinsettias, there are holiday cacti that have flowers that may be white, ...

Even cacti need water occasionally. Here's when you should give them a drink.

Christmas cactus is one of those holiday plants that people are able to grow year after year. Part of the fun of growing them is to get them to flower again during future Christmas seasons. However, ...

Did I really see a rack of poinsettias in an Outside supermarket last week? I did. How could that be? We are still eating leftover Halloween candy! Thanksgiving is the next holiday and cacti ...

Cactus plants are infamous for being easy to look after. They are the go-to plants to grow for beginner gardeners who don't have their green thumbs yet, but that doesn't mean that they are ...