A few years ago, I read that if Holiday cacti get cold, it makes the flowers pink. (Someone had asked about her white ones getting a pink tinge.)

It looks like my yellow Thanksgiving cactus got chilly when I had it by the kitchen windows.

It’s supposed to look like this.

Hm. Maybe my pictures are flawed. What’s blooming now looks almost orange to me.

I may have shown this to you before. But, I’m doing it again.

I was briefly in a FaceBook group for fans of Schlumbergeri. I left because the Serious People got all in a twist if you called one wrong. We tend to call them Holiday cactus because they bloom whenever they feel like it and may be Valentine’s or Halloween cactus if the light gets right.

But, that group was what inspired me to want this yellow one. And it showed me how to tell them apart to name them correctly if you care.

Mine are all Thanksgiving except for one Easter that was a gift. Another plant addict gave me a pinch of hers saying it hadn’t bloomed for her yet, so she had no idea what color it would be.

It hasn’t bloomed for me, yet, either. And I’ve begun to threaten it with annihilation.

That has frequently been effective with recalcitrant bloomers.