As the Garden Grows

I have two cactus like plants. One is a Thanksgiving Cactus and the other is of the same species, Schlumbergera, and is known as a Christmas Cactus.

General care for plants of the Schlumbergera species is to give them moderate to bright light in the Spring and Summer months. Lighting depends upon exactly which […]

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This is a photo of my Thanksgiving Cactus.

Naturally it didn’t bloom for our early Canadian Thanksgiving. Nope, it’s named for the American Thanksgiving obviously. Each year without fail my Thanksgiving cactus starts blooming like crazy.

Most people would call this a Christmas Cactus because they don’t realize that there are actually three types of Schlumbergera. There […]

Wordless Wednesday

I took all of these photos in early September. The garden was looking magnificent at the time.

The heat of summer was calming and we’d been getting enough rain that combined with regular watering all the plants were in fine form.
The flowers- from left to right - are a gorgeous pink cactus dahlia, […]