Andy Connolly
A few years ago I took a baby off one of my spider plants and put it in an old jam jar of water. I was being a bit lazy and told myself I’d pot it up properly at the weekend. I planned to but life got in the way and so the weekend came …
Yellow leaves on a Christmas cactus can come out of nowhere. One week the plant looks fine and the next you’ve got segments going yellow and soft where there used to be firm green ones. It’s tempting to just accept it as a cosmetic thing and ignore it. But yellowing is usually your Christmas cactus …
I nearly ruined my best Christmas cactus by repotting it. It had loads of buds one November and I decided the pot it came in wasn’t good enough for it. So I moved it into something bigger and that I thought looked nicer. Bit a week later it had dropped all it’s buds on the …
The first Christmas cactus I ever tried to save looked like it was hopeless. The segments had gone soft and floppy, a few had dropped off, it looked so grey I was sure I’d left it too late. But I didn’t kill it. It took a few weeks but it came back and the following …
My Christmas cactus came with lovely pink flowers. They looked great for about three weeks and then they all dropped off and the plant did nothing for 11 months. The following December it did nothing. So did the December after that. I assumed I’d killed it somehow. But it was and I just didn’t know …
It’s awful when look over at your Christmas cactus and realize it’s gone limp. One minute it’s sitting there full and upright and the next it’s drooping and flopping over the side of the pot Mine did this the first winter I owned one and. I did the sensible thing and panicked, which resulted in …
The first Christmas cactus I owned wasn’t mine. It was a cutting my nan snapped off her own plant. That cutting became more than one plant that sit on my windowsill. And that’s why learning how to propagate a Christmas cactus is so great. One plant becomes two. Two becomes five. And before long you’ve …
The Christmas cactus in my kitchen sits on a windowsill and gives me beautiful pink flowers every December. It’s been in my family for ages and is older than I am. I think people have the impression that a Christmas cactus is a seasonal plant you just throwaway soon after the holiday is over. But …
You’ve waited all year for your Christmas Cactus to give your it’s lovely pink or red flowers and then December arrives and nothing happens. Not one bud. If your Christmas cactus won’t bloom you’re not alone. It’s by far and away the most common complaint I hear about them and the one I’ve run into …
Snake plants are among the most hands off houseplants you can own. And it’s the fact they’re so easy to care for that means their pruning often gets ignored for longer than it should. They’ll look fine and you tell yourself it does not need any attention until you notice one of the leaves has …