There were recent notable discoveries in our house. My wife has had a Christmas cactus over her back kitchen window for years. It had never bloomed but it did in the last week for the first time. She also placed some broken tentacles from a “monster” cactus I am now keeping in my office and today it bloomed. It has a pink flower almost five inches wide and five inches around. We have had the “monster” cactus bloom before but this is the first time it budded in our house.
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I tend my small garden in my TV room on the book case by the window. There is several different kinds of cactus. They grow very slowly. A Christmas cactus hangs from an hinge on the top right corner of the window. I only got it back when I promised to water it regularly. I was neglecting it and its leaves were drooping badly. My wife finally watered it. On a speaker is a gigantic (about four feet tall) cactus. We used to put it outside when it got warmer but it was becoming too large and too heavy to transport: thus its present site for it does not get enough light to grow further. We have a rubber tree which has really gotten large: its leaves almost reach the top of the window. It keeps shooting out new leaves. There is also a snake ivy plant that is having a growth spurt now and each of the three branches have new leaves coming up. The one on the left is growing particularly quickly. That is my small garden in my room. I watch my plants carefully.
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The latest addition to my office was a budding cactus. Today the first yellow bloom opened up entirely and I had to share this discovery with my Other. It is rare for us to have any flowering cactus. She has had a Christmas cactus over the kitchen window for years and it has never bloomed. I considered this flower a gift. Life is full of unexpected gifts. You just have to pay attention.
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