Reblooming

Kalanchoe plant care comes down to one simple idea: treat it like the succulent it is, and give it a real rest after blooming. Most people bring one home from a grocery store or gift shop, enjoy a month of cheerful flowers, and then watch it slowly decline. That is not the plant failing. It is the plant waiting for a cue that most care guides forget to explain. Kalanchoe blossfeldiana, the florist kalanchoe you find everywhere, is a compact flowering succulent that stores water in its fleshy leaves, blooms in clusters of small bright flowers, and needs bright light and infrequent deep watering to thrive indoors. Where it differs from most other common houseplants is in reblooming: it is a short-day plant, which means it only sets flower buds when it gets extended periods of darkness. That one detail changes how you care for it after the first bloom fades. ...

What to Do After Your Orchid Flowers Fall Off One day your orchid is covered in blooms. A few weeks later the last flower drops, and you are standing in front of a bare green stick wondering whether you killed it or whether it is going to be fine. The honest answer: it is almost certainly fine. But what you do in the next few months is what separates orchids that rebloom reliably from orchids that sit on a windowsill for years – looking completely healthy, never flowering again. ...