Yellow flowering prickly pear glows like sunshine
Hot weather and sunshine bring out the beauty of prickly pear (Opuntia) flowers.
This gigantic spineless prickly pear growing in a neighbor’s yard stands about 6-1/2 feet tall, and it’s covered with butter-yellow flowers.
The toughest plants seem to have the most splendid flowers.
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Splendid sunny flowers indeed. That prickly pear is HUGE.
That prickly pear is gorgeous! The flowers is beautiful.
It always amazes me, and visitors to my garden, that we grow prickly pear in PA. Mine was a gift from a dear friend who has since passed away, so it is truly important to me. It has lots of buds this year so I anticipate a gorgeous show! P. x