The firestick plant (Euphorbia tirucalli ... Once the plant begins to grow in the spring, apply a cactus or all-purpose houseplant fertilizer, diluted to half strength. For outdoor plants ...

The pencil cactus, otherwise known as a 'milk bush' or euphorbia tirucalli ... best kept in temperatures not dipping below 25°C, the plant has become highly popularized as a house succulent ...

I paid a lot of attention to those words because I already had a big — make that a giant interest in growing these ...

Other euphorbias include pencil plant, baseball “cactus,” and the all-time great name, “cows horn cactus,” Euphorbia grandicornis. Although most succulent euphorbias are from the Eastern ...