The ORCHID cactus might be called the Cinderella of the garden world. Most of the year the plant, with disheveled, arched, trailing branches, is easy to ignore. But from February through June, ...

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A. The orchid cactus is a beautiful flowering plant that does not fit the typical idea we associate with cacti. The Epiphyllum orchid cactus is a rain forest dweller, not a desert inhabitant. This ...

I've yet to divorce a plant, though I've been sorely tempted. If I could leave a man, why not an epiphyllum? A lazy, no good, freeloading space holder that has bloomed no more than twice in eight ...

Q: I fell in love with a plant last year while visiting a small town in northern Italy. They call it lingua di donna, roughly translated "lady's tongue." What do we call this plant in the United ...

The biggest problem with growing orchid cactuses is figuring out just what they are. They are cactuses, but are not spiny. Their spectacular blossoms are neither orchids nor orchidlike. Sometimes ...

I've had an orchid obsession for the last 20 years, and then Fred Whitley gave me a division of an orchid cactus (epiphyllum) from one he'd been given by the late Lucille Sharp. The flower on this ...

Orchid cacti, like this one housed at a library in Illinois, bloom just once a year. It’s Monday, around 9 o’clock, and the library is locked for the night. Silently, Linda Zellmer appears on the ...

Inga and Werner Opitz had given up on their flowering cactus. It hadn’t bloomed in 16 years. “We were so upset,” said Inga, 89. “We were ready to throw it out.” The north Everett couple bought the ...

Ever since I told the story of how Nagib Padamshi loves to rescue plants destined for the landfill and find a place for them in his beautiful Kerrisdale garden, I’ve received emails from people hoping ...

Q: I was given an Easter cactus last year. What should I do to keep it growing? Is this plant considered an epiphyllum? – N.S., Alta Loma A: Easter cactus, Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri, the Christmas ...