Repot Christmas cactus every three to four years in late winter or early spring—never while it’s blooming. Choose a pot about ...

Boston ferns are low-maintenance plants. They only need a little pruning to look healthy and maintain their natural shape, but you'll need to do it correctly.

Crowded peace lily? Learn when to divide it, which tools to use, and the simple technique that turns one plant into many — ...

Christmas cacti are surprisingly easy to kill despite being low-maintenance plants, and overwatering is the most common culprit. Because they have "cactus" in their name, people assume they need very ...

Some of the holiday plants I wrote about last week have interesting stories. I wrote about our Christmas cactus; however, it is actually a Thanksgiving cactus. These normally bloom earlier than ...

A quick show of hands, how many of us have a “Christmas” cactus withering away in our homes? With fascinating information, and some tender love and care, one of our La Plata County master gardeners, ...

Charles Dickens, more than any writer before or since, taught the world how to rejoice at Christmas. Yet among his many beloved works is a short essay — now largely forgotten — in which he reflected ...

Succulents generally thrive on benign neglect. Quickly draining soil is the foundation of succulent and cactus care.

If you’re trying to get into the Christmas spirit, you’ve likely been trying all sorts of things, from decorating your tree to watching your favorite sitcom episodes focusing on the holidays. But if ...

A woman who accidentally broke a decades-old Christmas bauble realized there had been something magical hidden away inside it for all those years. Ashley Gutierrez Siler, 40, lives in Augusta, Georgia ...

I couldn’t remember the title of a favorite Christmas story my mother read to me. The storyline and illustrations stuck, but not the title. I thought perhaps that artificial intelligence might help, ...