When I moved I .was sad to leave my houseplants behind. There was just no room to fit them in the car so I left them with a friend. However, I inherited a plant that was left here by the previous occupiers of the house.
I naturally looked it up to see what it was as I’m not that familiar with succulents and found it was called a Zygocactus. I also learned that this plant is also known as a Christmas Cactus. A couple of my blogging friends have these and they flower in December. Mine didn’t of course, but it looked healthy enough so I sat it on a sunny shelf, watered it regularly but not too much and waited.
Yesterday I noticed that it had bloomed for the first time. In Australia they bloom in June , which is winter for us of course. And that I guess is why we never call them Christmas Cactus.
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Mine are starting to bud NOW. They traditionally bloom in November and December, but they can — and do — bloom whenever they feel like it. Mine apparently are on Australian time.
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So it seems. 🙂
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Mine are in flower too. Many years ago when my son was in third grade, each student potted up a cutting. He still has that plant.
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They are pretty easy to take cuttings from then. I was thinking this one seemed a little large for the pot.
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I think if you break off a couple of bits and put them in a glass of water, they should strike fairly easily.
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I’ll have a go.
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Just because your have opposite seasons as us. 😀 Wonderful photos. 😀
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`Marilyn says hers is in bud so it seems there is no hard and fast rule about it.
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I do believe my mom had one of those or at least a similar one when I was a kid. It looks very familar to me!
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They must be pretty common. I know at least three other bloggers who have them.
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One of those plants that bad gardeners like because “You couldn’t kill it with a brick.”
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I am one of those bad gardeners. I have a real tough palm plant in my living room and I sometimes forget it for a few months. It’s between a curtain and the windows. When I discover this plant again, I have pity for the plant and how it looks like. But all I need to do is pull off bad leaves, and give it water again. I usually give it like 2 or 3 liters waters and it is soaking it up in no time. I give it that much, because I know I will forget it again for a month or two lol. But it’s always surviving and it seems like I picked the right plant lol.
By the way, my cat is always reminding me of the plant again. Because once in a while she wants to play between the curtain and windows (I am not sure how it’s called, but it’s like some kind of apartment conservatory or a small windowed porch where the windows go to the ground and you can stand there). If the cat wouldn’t be, the plant would probably die lol.
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More people kill plants by over watering than under watering them so your occasional good soak followed by neglect is probably not doing too much harm.
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Hehe, that would explain why the plant is doing ok. But I do also think it’s an indestructible plant 🙂
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