Download Christmas Cactus Flowering Season PNG. How to care for your christmas cactus so it will bloom all holiday season long. There's also an easter cactus, or rhipsalidopsis gaertneri, which flowers in—you guessed it—late winter to early spring.
The christmas cactus or thanksgiving cactus is an amazing attention grabbing sight when it's in flower, which is normally in november or over the christmas period.
The horticulture experts at the cheyenne botanic gardens recommend setting your christmas cactus in. Take cuttings of one to four. Here is how to care for your christmas cactus and keep it blooming and pretty for named the schlumbergera after a frenchman who collected cacti in the 1800s, this plant became tied to holidays through their colorful flowers. In order to initiate flowering, christmas cacti need prolonged periods of darkness in the weeks leading up to the blooming season.