Kalanchoe blossfeldiana

by | Dec 4, 2012 | Blooming Now

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana is the kalanchoe that you will see in flower shops. The blooms come in a variety of colors and it makes a nice blooming plant for a gift. As the days pass and more of the buds open, this one will make much more of a statement.

Pachypodium baronii

by | Dec 3, 2012 | Blooming Now

Pachypodium baronii buds. Pachypodium baronii flowers nine days later. Pachypodiums are a member of the family apocynaceae and are considered a caudiciform, a fat plant, because they have developed a fat water retaining base, trunk, or root for storing water during...

Cactus Do Need Water

by | Nov 30, 2012 | Cactus Care

If depriving cactus of light is the worst thing you can do to it, not watering it is the second worst. For the uninitiated, I think this is the way the reasoning goes: cactus live in the desert; deserts are dry; therefore this cactus can stay dry and doesn’t need...

Euphorbias

by | Nov 28, 2012 | Blooming Now

I have not been able to identify the variety of either of these euphorbias. Their stems are similar, but the one, as you can see, does not have the flat, fleshy leaves that the other one does. And those little pink things on both are flowers, believe it or not! While...