I
have the craziest Christmas/Easter/ Leap Year cactus!! I don’t remember
when I first bought the Christmas cactus plant  but probably 7-8 years
ago. It was already in bloom when I bought it that Christmas but stopped
blooming after the buds dropped. It didn’t bloom the following
Christmas and then all of a sudden there were blooms around Easter. Once
again it didn’t bloom at Christmas time but all of a sudden 2012 it
started to bloom around my Leap Year birthday!

The last 3 years it seems to bloom around Christmas, the end of February and the week before Easter, whatever date it might be.

At
first the blooms were all pink and then all a sudden they were a
mixture of pink and white. I did cut off a few branches and before I
knew it I had 5 pots of cacti plus the big mother plant.

For the
first time this year the mother plant started to bloom 2 weeks before
Christmas, both white and pink blooms, and one by one each of the other 5
potted plants started to bloom, some white and some pink. Since then
all the plants have remained in bloom and I am wondering if this will
continue to Easter and beyond!

The blooms are very pretty but I don’t detect any aroma.


SLIDESHOW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZCrNmNGCeo&feature=youtu.be