Mom's Flowering Cactus
 

I finally found a picture online to tell me what it is.... it's a Flowering Christmas Cactus.


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This was at my mother's house and I brought it home. It didn't look very good at all and so I purchased some soil for cactus and put in a food stick and it's looking wonderful. I don't remember seeing it bloomed at Mom's. I have her African Violets too. She had two and after going downhill, they too are coming out of it. I hope they will bloom also. There was a philadendren (sp) that she has kept alive since my father's funeral in 1973...I have it and it's doing much better. I think they got extremely lonely in the house by themselves until I brought them home, repotted and fed them.

That's a great gift you have caring for plants, Janet! I can't grow anything, lol! I know your mom would be proud.

That's cool!!! Dae Lynn has a Christmas Cactus and it's just starting to bloom only it's either bright pink or red......I can't tell yet.

I love plants. They are one of my hobbies. I would love to have a nice greenhouse to keep them in as well. Lately I've gotten into orchids and I have two that are reblooming and one new one that's blooming.

Having a plant since 1973 is a long time!!!! I bet it was really happy to get new potting soil.....that always perks them up!!! I have one that I've had for about 16 years or so. It's a ficus tree and it's pretty big......I also have a small plant that I've had since Feyn was in third grade. His class made terrariums out of plastic pop bottles and this was one of the plants that was included. I talked to the teacher he had back then and told her that I still had the plant and would she want a start off of it and so Dae Lynn took a start to her the other day. I've had this one for almost 30 years!!!!

Wow, I can't even grow grass in any of my yards :o

Lol....Jess you're so funny!

There are actually thanksgiving cactus too. They only bloom at thanksgiving or Christmas. There might be an Easter one too. Beautiful and glad you got it.

I had no information on cactus at all...guess I need to read some more. It sure is pretty.

That is a lovely remembrance of your Mom, Janet! Keep them growing!

I had an elephant ear plant for a good 30 years. Jessie was jealous of it when she was little because I was always telling her not to touch it! There was a good 3 foot piece of it in the corner of the living room, that she "accidentally" broke off!

I was going to move the 3 or 4 plants that I loved, but as the movers were packing the moving van, I realized they wouldn't make it. I hope somebody else is taking care of them!

I have 3 coleus plants that I brought inside for the winter, and one potted mint now. That's enough for inside since I am surrounded by growing things outside.

My mother had coleus, and I love the colors.

It ended up with two blooms, but they've both fallen off now. Very pretty while they lasted. I'm hoping they'll bloom again when it gets closer to Christmas.

It must be a pretty small plant to only have two blooms. Dae Lynn's plant isn't very big but it's got at least 5 or 6 blooms now and many more to open.

Have you given it any fertilizer? I have some for orchids.....which I think helps them bloom so I've been watering with that.

Yes..I have fertilizer, but these plants were left at Mom's unattended for a couple months. They are all doing so much better than they were. I'm most concerned with the philadendrum (sp) that Mom has kept since my Dad's funeral. I just don't want anything to happen to that one especially. I saw a hanging basket at Wal Mart filled with the cactus I have. I may go back and get it. The blooms were in white, pink and red. The reds were really beautiful.

That plant sounds beautiful, Janet! It must be very hardy. It has been around for quite a while.