My old Christmas Cactus never bloomed at Christmas - always during a different holiday. Sometimes Easter, sometimes the 4th of July.

Actually mine is a Thanksgiving Cactus and it bloomed heavily then.

It may be a spring cactus. I was at the plant store last week and they had a huge display of them labeled as spring cactus.

I think old man weather is completely confused and does not want to leave! Friday I went to a soccer game and didn't need even a jacket but Saturday, it was back to winter coats, scarves, and gloves. Right now it is sleeting and snow flurries! ..UGH!

I was surprised that my Louisiana irises started blooming about a week earlier than usual. One of them, "Mistis', reliably blooms on March 31st every year. This year it bloomed on March 23rd. We had a colder than usual winter....I would have thought it would have bloomed later, if not on time, rather than earlier.

I have a Christmas cactus that reliably blooms for MLK Day, every year. Never earlier.

Oh, that's not a Christmas Cactus! that's an EASTER Cactus. You can tell because it blooms around Easter, instead of Christmas.

;-) LOL

Your cactus is a hybrid, not the 'real' Christmas cactus, which is a species. The hybrids can bloom most any time, usually in the winter half of the year. They are commonly called holiday cactus. The hybrids can be manipulated by the commercial growers to bloom for whatever holiday they choose, and if you purchase one at a certain time, there is no guarantee it will bloom the same time for you. Whenever they bloom, they are certainly attractive. I've got one that was given to me by a friend that isn't all that big, but has multiple buds at each terminal, probably over one hundred. It is named, and should be in bloom by late this month or early May.

I have had mine for years and every year before now they have only bloomed at Thanksgiving. I have a large orange red, a white, and a dark pink/red. This year is the first year the white and the pink/red have bloomed extra. I wish I had taken pictures, but was just too busy.

Oh, I know there are "Christmas Cactus", "Thanksgiving Cactus", "Easter Cactus", etc. (Although those I've seen labeled "Easter" cactus had very different blooms, and some difference in the foliage, too). But I just got this plant a week before Christmas, and it was loaded with blossoms. So I was really surprised when this one lonesome little blossom showed up now, so few months after a big bloom.

Rusty

We had spring showings: Crocus pushed up buds, Siberian Squill began blooming, grass began to green, male yellow finches are turning yellow, and then 2 nights ago, the temperature dropped to 14 F. We're having a brutal spring. its more like more winter. We had some snow eith this cold wave and could get a little more tomorrow.

Wake up. Get up. Raise the first shade in the bedroom. April Fool! An inch of snow this morning. It's not sticking to pavement, but frosting the lawn, tree limbs and shrubs. DGS was surveying the creek yesterday afternoon (in bright sunshine) and presented me with a tiny blue squill, leaving most behind (like a Good Indian).

Rusty....that's very pretty!