The flowers look like this (an older pic, I don't have any blooms this year yet.) Each stem will have a spray of blooms like this at the top of it.

K. blossfeldiana plants are starting to make buds.

I put together a few pots of a few kinds of Kals with buds to be gifts for the holidays. They should be in bloom if all goes as planned, and cuttings take root while blooming as I have seen them do in the past. Instead of trying to get much taller plants to stay upright after being uprooted (which past experience tells me will not work w/o stakes or other props, Kals have very little roots & are very heavy plants.) I cut the tops off to reasonable lengths, removed excess bottom leaves & let them dry overnight, then potted & watered. No buds actually visible on the K. fedtschenkoi plants (the kind with the fatter, bluish foliage) but all of their growth tips have changed. Will update before they're given away. The others are K. x houghtonii and K. blossfeldiana.

I cut all of these stems with buds yesterday, removed the lower leaves & stuck them in this pot. About 40 stems.

This is the pot in which I did that last year. They're still going & full of buds too.

K. houghtonii buds are getting close!

Lavender scallops plants are preparing to bloom too! The first sign is the tips turning downward.

Now buds are becoming visible.

Found buds on K. laetivirens too!

Beautiful Tiffany, you give the plants a whole new name "Mother of Millions" lol

That is one of the common names, and mother of thousands, for the ones that make baby plants on the edges of the leaves. Some have other names as well.

Found buds on mariner's Kalanchoe (K. marnieriana.)

I like kalanchoe plants, but don't currently grow K. houghtonii. How long does the K. houghtonii bloom period last?

That's a good question! 4-6 mos, depending on individual/conditions. From sometime in Dec./Jan until May/June. About the same as K. blossfeldiana. The short days/long nights trigger the blooming, so being in a room where lights are on after dark could hinder development/longevity, just like a Thanksgiving/Christmas cactus.

I might consider getting one to grow outdoors since it is so extended a bloom. (With these you only need one to start, anyway!) I wanted the same kalanchoe as seen a few streets over in my community, which had brightly-colored flowers, but I don't see it offered in the nurseries here. Still, I think Christmas cactus are showier in bloom and not too shabby at a 2-3 month stretch of flowering w/ occasional repeat. But they are such different plants, they fall into completely different use niches in my garden. Thanks for the info, Tiffany.

Happy to share what I've seen. And totally agree about what one needs to get started. All of mine came from my breaking off the top of a parking-lot-crack plant in New Orleans in April, 2013... and the babies that followed. If you live where this is hardy, know it's not native in N America (or anywhere but Madagascar, AFAIK,) and will take over.

What color were the flowers you saw a few streets over?

It had more saturated-colored reddish flowers. Probably a K. delagoensis hybrid. I didn't take a photo at the time; just remember thinking "Dang, that is a pretty one." I am concerned with them spreading too much with our sandy soil and SoCal climate. There is a narrow strip next to the house with a good amount of concrete surrounding that I cannot decide what to use to replace the removed aloes. I'm undecided.

Babies would probably get away from any outside spot in your area during windy/rainy conditions. The reason I have so many is because winter didn't show up last time and there were thousands of babies all over my flower beds still alive. A normal winter would have killed them here.

Saturated is a good word! When I realize how much direct sun these kinds of plants appreciate, I've given them as much as possible and last winters' blooms were like those in the pic below, regarding color. The blooms in the above pic were faded from lower light.

K. houghtonii is a hybrid, the love child of K. delagoensis & daigremontiana. These plants are the mother lode and were about finished with very few petals left when I appropriated the top of a baby from a nearby crack in the parking lot and started what is now a collection with it, but this pic may help show that they were a much deeper, more saturated color.

They would be washing into the hell strips and street gutter, so not as terrible a situation as it could be. But I probably will do the sensible thing and go with something else, since 98% of the landscape maintenance falls into my work load. And I have been avoiding rampant spreaders to date for that reason.

Too many pots of this to take a pic of all, K. blossfeldiana buds forming in earnest! Mostly yellow here, some red.

More of each at the front and left of this pot.

The first blooms to open are in a pot that's not planned to be given shelter, just not enough space for every plant. According to the forecast, this pots' plants will get a chance to do some blooming.

Blooms are opening up more!

The plants I gave as gifts were a big hit! Just starting to bloom!