Growing Pincushion Cacti: A Beginner’s Guide to These Charming Desert Gems I found a pincushion cactus blooming at a garden center with a ring of bright pink flowers around the top. The plant was only three inches across but covered in flowers, which convinced me to buy it on the spot. What Makes Pincushion Cacti
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THE OLD MAN CACTUS: A HAIRY CHARMER WITH PERSONALITY TO SPARE The Old Man cactus earns its name with a shaggy white beard that somehow never goes out of style. Let me tell you about my absolute favorite conversation starter in my succulent collection – the Old Man Cactus (Cephalocereus senilis). Here’s the thing: once
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Growing Resin Spurge: A Complete Guide to This Fascinating Moroccan Succulent Resin spurge looks like a cactus but is actually a euphorb, a sneaky trickster with stacked green columns and a sap you do not want on your skin. Getting to Know the Resin Spurge Tall ridged green stems that branch from the base, giving
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Growing the Magnificent Cardon Grande Cactus: A Complete Care Guide I saw my first Cardon Grande cactus at the Desert Botanical Garden, standing taller than the surrounding fence. I bought a one-foot seedling and it has since grown a thick trunk and begun to branch at the top. After 15 years of growing these stunning
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Growing The Pencil Milk Bush: A Complete Guide to This Striking Yet Tricky Succulent I found a pencil milk bush growing wild on a roadside in Arizona and took a small cutting home. It rooted in a week and now sits in a terra cotta pot on my porch, looking exactly like a cluster of
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Gopher Plant Care Guide: Growing This Striking Succulent Successfully This oddball succulent looks like it belongs on another planet, and that’s exactly why I’m obsessed. I walked past a gopher plant cactus for years at the local succulent nursery before I finally bought one. The blue-green stems look like stacked fingers, and it has survived
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Growing the Perfect Snowball Cactus: A Complete Care Guide Four bucks at a grocery-store checkout turned into my favorite four-year friendship with a spiky little plant. My Mammillaria snowball cactus was a four-dollar impulse buy at a grocery store checkout. Four years later it has produced two rings of offsets and blooms with a crown
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The Ultimate Guide to Growing Golden Torch Cactus: A Desert Jewel in Your Garden The golden torch cactus is the columnar cousin that glows under grow lights, golden spines catching every bit of sun. Mine became the centerpiece of my desert shelf. Why You’ll Love This Desert Beauty Tall golden-spined columns that cluster and bloom
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Hey there, plant lovers! The mistletoe cactus surprised me by hanging, not standing. Its trailing green strands look like something from a jungle, and it’s far more forgiving than its exotic look implies. What Is the Mistletoe Cactus? A epiphytic cactus with thin trailing stems that spill from a hanging pot. No spines, just soft
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GROWING AND CARING FOR PRICKLY PEAR CACTI: A COMPLETE GUIDE My prickly pear came from a broken pad I found lying on a Tucson sidewalk. I let it callus for two weeks, stuck it in dry cactus soil, and within a year it had three new pads and two bright yellow flowers. Let me tell
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