I
have written a couple of posts about this amazing Christmas cactus that
I have and it continues to blow my mind! I got it as a small plant at
The Home Depot a number of years ago and for 2 years it bloomed pink
flowers right around Christmas time. It was Christmas 2011 that not a
single bloom appeared BUT in February, 2012, just in time for my 19th
Leap Year birthday it bloomed with white and pink flowers. This year,
once again, it fully bloomed right on schedule! How does it know the
time? It is indoors, the temperature is always the same and I don’t do
the ‘no lights’ thing.

It had really grown massive last year so
when I was doing some repotting, and getting new plants, I decided to
clip off a few branches (if that is what they are called) from the
mother plant (First picture) and, without rhyme or reason, sticking a
leaf here and a leaf there. When I woke up Christmas day I was
surrounded with Christmas cactus blooms all over the living room. Some
were white, some were pink, some consisted of one stem with one bud at
the end while another had a few mixed blooms, and buds, in one pot.

It's
all absolutely amazing and makes me admire Mother Nature even more. How
anyone can ever say they are bored and have nothing to do when she has
laid out everyone's world with such startling, irrational, happenings
can be seen 24/7, is beyond my understanding. Heck even if you don't
have a green thumb she does--just look out your window.

My
apartment is filled with plants ranging from Siam tulips--have you ever
heard or seen them?--a begonia that has bloomed every month for 3 years
now I think-- Cuban flowers which I took twigs off a big bush and like
the Christmas cactus I just stuck them into dirt in various pots and now
every morning when I walk into the living room, bathroom or kitchen it
looks like butterflies all over the place.

I have taken a corner
of the walkway and planted various herbs to make a great tomato gravy
plus a tall plant that someday I’ll learn the name of--my neighbor added
a few plants and our walkway stands out.

I have always kept
plants but since I had to give up my birds it has almost become an
addiction. I can’t go into the Home Depot without walking out with a
plant--or two. If I pass a hibiscus bush I take off a twig and stick it
into a pot and due to Ana I started to grow Romaine lettuce!!

Need any Aloe??? I have about 16 pots of them. :O)

Right now I am mesmerized by the Christmas cactus and wondering when the last bloom will appear!
 
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