Schlumbergera looks wonderful on the coffee table or on your bedside table, but it's also often seen as a hanging plant, suspended from the ceiling. With its beautiful flowers at Christmastime, this plant is also earmarked for a place on or near the Christmas Day table.
If well taken care of, the plant will continue to bloom for a while after Christmas, and it will feel happy in a group with other cacti and succulents. Make sure it's kept in its own pot, because after flowering Schlumbergera needs a month of holiday to recover. This means no water and much less light.
After a month of drying out, flower buds will begin to grow and you can water your Christmas cactus again. If you keep the plant in a warm place — at least 20 degrees — and supply it with indirect sunlight, the chance of new flowers in the autumn is high!
