Christmas Cactus – 2nd Blooming (in March!) & Illegal Plants
Two Christmas Cactus- two tales:
Story One – Re-blooming and renewal. My good ol’ trusty Zygocactus blooms again! In March! And it’s a beauty. I’ve never had two blooming periods in one year. I wonder what I did to bring about such a joy? 
Story Two – Patented Genes & Droopy Stems: I bought the below Cactus a few years ago at a local supermarket because it’s flowers were remarkable. Then I noticed that it had a sign on it that said, “Propogation Prohibited.” What? Isn’t that what plants do? Thumbs down. Both thumbs down. In fact, it makes me want to propogate it just to stick it to the man. Up yours Monstanto! Anyway, it has never really thrived and is so slow to reproduce new growth. (I’m sure that’s not an accident.) Anyway, it got all droopy, so I repotted it – and next year I hope to give some friends an illegal plant for the holidays. If I can get it to survive. Or is that not an accident either?
(Dear Plant Police: I have not yet propogated the above plant. But I might. Give me one good reason why a plant shouldn’t propogate and I may reconsider. Obvoiously this plant is not harming or invasive in its pot. I see no reason not to propogate, in fact, it seems wrong not to share such a beauty. Do you sleep well at night? Repent.)
I have to tell you that I love your site and I too am a huge fan of Christmas Cactus! I want to introduce myself…..My name is Ben Fairfield and I am one of the founders of The Urban Garden Project™. The Urban Garden Project™ is the initiative to encourage Americans to learn from history, become more self-reliant, save a significant amount of money, and eat healthier, all as a result of planting their own urban garden! The goal of The Urban Garden Project™ is to encourage and catalogue the creation of 100,000 urban gardens by 2020. We know that this is a sizeable goal, but we will accomplish it 1 garden at a time!
As a result of your successful blog and your obvious passion for gardening I was hoping that you would visit our website at http://www.urbangardenproject.wordpress.com to learn more about the project. It costs nothing to support the project; we simply need help getting the word out to the world so that we can begin to catalog existing or new urban gardens. It would also be great to be able to add you to our garden catalog and link to your site through our blogroll! The official kick off for the project is April 1st 2009 and we are busy creating videos, tutorials, product reviews and more to make visiting worth everyone’s time!
I am hoping that as a result of our shared passion for gardening you can help us in spreading the word about The Urban Garden Project™. Again, your support costs nothing. Our mission is pure and we hope that you can come along side us in this project to grow the gardening community and the number of urban gardens!
Thank you so much for your time and we are looking forward to you visiting our site and letting us add your garden to our growing catalog of gardens from across the world!
Have a great day!
Ben Fairfield
We’d love to join you guys!!! Link us up and we’ll happily provide a link to you guys!
Urban gardening forever!
whoa. that’s weird. but anyway yeah, our xmas cactus bloomed in Feb, right around our anniversary. so now it’s an anniversary cactus.
that “no propagation” sign is some bullshit! it’s like reading a software EULA that says “by reading this document you agree to…”. the seller is saying “by buying this plant you agree to not use the thing that you bought in the ways it was built to be used.” eff that! ours is from a clipping of my mom’s plant!
Thanks so much Carrie –
On our members page we post the name of the gardener, the blog name linked to your blog, as well as the city and state that your garden resides in! Once we have that I will add you to the list! You can always email us at urbangardenproject@rocketmail.com! Thanks so much for the support!
Ben