Sunday 14 October 2012

Christmas in October

I bought a small Christmas Cactus at Home Depot a few years ago. Each year it gets a little bigger. It stays in my south window all winter and really does nothing much except enjoy the winter sunshine, and then in the spring it goes outside. I don't water it, I just leave it up to Mother Nature to look after it.
And then as soon as it starts to get colder at night I bring it in.
And I noticed that it was covered with tiny pink buds.
Obviously spending the summer outside and being ignored agrees with it.
Only a week later, the whole plant is covered with pink blooms. Just gorgeous.
It's giving me my Christmas present a couple of months early.

18 comments:

  1. BEAUTIFUL!!! I love these "Christmas Cactus"...I have one planted outside in a protected area---it seems pretty happy there and Blooms each year....Yours is obviously Very Very Happy with the care you give it, my dear...!

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  2. Wow!...we have one, but it has never bloomed like yours. Absolutely gorgeous.

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  3. What a treat! I remember my dad getting an amaryllis to flower in time for Easter.

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  4. We have one that flowers at Christmas and Easter.

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  5. it's gorgeous! Merry Octobermas!

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  6. I used to have a christmas cactus until squirrels ate them. By seeing your photo I feels like going out and getting a new plant.

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  7. Mine was flowering just before yours :)
    And my house is not burning but the fireplace is giving extra warm already !
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  8. So pretty. This may actually be the variety known as the Thanksgiving cactus. Yes, there really is such a thing. :))

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  9. Hello,
    My one has not started flowering. Here, it starts in the middle of November.
    Green Tomato

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  10. WOWSER! Gorgeous is an understatement.

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  11. Wow! Startlingly nice color!

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  12. That's a nice plant Shammickite. Did you know that you can propagate it by snapping off a segment of leaf and planting it? - Dave

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  14. So pretty. You are so fortunate to have so many blossoms.
    Maybe I need to ignore mine too. It sure hasn't given me many flowers.
    Have a great weekend Shammie.

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  15. Beautiful flower, thanks for sharing.

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  16. Just beautiful! My Christmas cacti always die. I'm glad yours is blooming so gloriously!

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  17. My friend Cathy has a Christmas cactus like that. Takes almost no care, spends the summer outside, comes in and blooms gloriously! Just like yours. I think Xmas cactuses need something other than just basic care. The owner has to be one of those Green Thumb people. When I leave my Xmas cactuses outside, they die.

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