Glad to share info, Tara, which was previously shared with me. Like any good secret, pass it on! I've fallen so in love with these plants, I really can't imagine how anyone can live w/o them. Even w/o blooms, the 'foliage' is such a perky, plump, pleasant sight to me. When some turned reddish, purplish outside in some sun, I was a total goner, in deep. If more people's first plant was a holiday cactus, there would be more 'house plant people' out there, I'm convinced. These might not have the great scent of the heartbreaking 1st plants often encountered like Gardenia or Jasmine but are so much easier to keep alive and bloom so readily. I love all of the colors! I don't expect 'house plants' to follow any color scheme, and the more colors, the more festive, like a string of lights.
Next year I'll have plants ready to be presents, not these one-week bloomers from the BBS. No offense to those, that's how they get around! Just that the conglomeration of insults such plants suffer till they finally get on a kitchen table is usually enough to make any remaining buds fall off. So IME bringing them home, you get about a week of the most-ready, sturdy buds, already-open flowers.
Oh, and I forgot to say, Jacquie of course DOES have an awesome greenhouse full of beautiful holiday cacti, by any and every name at all. And it's not what I'd call rustic either. If you want to call it a conservatory, I'm good with it. The plants next to my computer chair are so jealous. I caught them leaning away from the window toward that pic. Now I'm getting glared at.
Here's a shot of the whole pot with the last flower I showed.
