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 ...

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 ...

People stay up at night to enjoy the opening of the flowers of the tropical wonder Epiphyllum petalum, better known by its common name, queen of the night flower, or orchid cactus, not to be confused ...

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 ...

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 ...