The biggest problem with growing orchid cacti is figuring out just what they are. They are cacti, but are not spiny. Their spectacular blossoms are neither orchids nor orchid-like. Sometimes orchid ...

Q:I have a pink-flowered orchid cactus about 5 years old and 4 feet long. It is so beautiful when in bloom. Is it possible to divide the plant in half, as it is quite crowded in the container? Also a ...

Grow an orchid cactus and be rewarded with spectacular scarlet, pink and white blooms. Sometimes called epies, short for epiphyllums, the tropical plants are not really orchids. They love moisture and ...

I've yet to divorce a plant, though I've been sorely tempted. If I could leave a man, why not an epiphyllum? A lazy, no good, freeloading space holder that has bloomed no more than twice in eight ...

Orchid cacti, like this one housed at a library in Illinois, bloom just once a year. It’s Monday, around 9 o’clock, and the library is locked for the night. Silently, Linda Zellmer appears on the ...

Inga and Werner Opitz had given up on their flowering cactus. It hadn’t bloomed in 16 years. “We were so upset,” said Inga, 89. “We were ready to throw it out.” The north Everett couple bought the ...

A. The orchid cactus is a beautiful flowering plant that does not fit the typical idea we associate with cacti. The Epiphyllum orchid cactus is a rain forest dweller, not a desert inhabitant. This ...

The biggest problem with growing orchid cactuses is figuring out just what they are. They are cactuses, but are not spiny. Their spectacular blossoms are neither orchids nor orchidlike. Sometimes ...

It’s Monday, around 9 o’clock, and the library is locked for the night. Silently, Linda Zellmer appears on the other side of the glass door. She opens it and guides us up four dark floors towards a ...