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cacti

Hi Pauline!

Saw your post about your interest in cacti, particularly Christmas
cacti. Thirty-five varieties: Wow!

I enjoy Christmas and Easter cacti, but have only 8 plants (7 are
Christmas cacti). Colors are traditional red plus orange, yellow, gold
and white. 

One is a miniature with very tiny red frilly blossoms. I think its a
mini; I received it last November as a gift while in the hospital. No
identification tag, except to say it's a Christmas cactus. Well, I knew
that. It was just coming into flower when I received it five days before
Thanksgiving; it finished blooming the first week of January. Such a
long bloomer! It has grown some outside this summer with the other
cacti, but remains small (4-inch pot; was in smaller pot when I got it).
I'd like to know what it is; haven't been able to locate it in books.

I also have more than a dozen other cacti and succulent plants plus a
big 35-year-old jade that was in a 2-inch pot when I bought it back in
1962. It's a family heirloom; its cuttings have gone to family members
and friends.

My houseplant passions are begonias and saintpaulias, plus a few "green"
plants. Most are grown under lights in a workshop/plantroom in the
basement. Specimen plants live in the family and living rooms; an
especially beautiful violet or begonia will get center stage as table
decorations at special occasions, then go back under the lights. Some
are used in Christmas arrangements (rex and rhizome begonias and violets
look especially good in these arrangements, some of which have candles.

I also have several perennal borders and a vegetable garden that keep me
busy spring through autumn.

John G. Adney
Marion, Iowa (east-central next to Cedar Rapids)
On the line of zones 4-5
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