Here’s the Thanksgiving Cactus I bought for just £3.00 from Aldi (the then new one) in Ainsdale last December.

As is normal with store-bought plants, I got him when in flower, took him home then into work where the little sod duly lost all of the flowers over a period of less than one week!

It would appear that he’s now recovering as there are signs of leaf growth.

If you notice a slight blue hue behind the plant that is because I have a USB light on it to try and get the plant as much light as possible – the windows in here are large and let in a fair amount of light, alas this can make my colleagues screens unviewable and we have to draw the blinds.

This is a Schlumbergera truncata (I think) and he has a companion (to be featured later) who is an Easter Cactus – Hatiora gaertneri, there is even talk (from myself mainly!) of me completing the set and somehow obtaining the seemingly ubiquitous (at Christmas) ‘Christmas Cactus’ – Schlumbergera x buckleyi. 

Oh it’s fun to be an obsessive collector!

The information for this post was garnered from: Desert Plants of Avalon