This is a very interesting plant! The Prickly Pear is indigenous to this area. It only blooms once a year in about July.
Trying to weed around it is a definite challenge! Usually, we go around pulling out stickers from our arms for a couple of weeks.
Happy Fairy Garden Friday!!
The Linden Chronicles 
You can’t beat nature’s yellow! Thanks very much for following First Night History.
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You’re welcome! Yes, the yellow is magnificent! I had Sandy go out and take a picture of the fruit and will post that now…you jogged my memory! Thanks for stopping by!!
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Ours grow wild so not weeding needed. Just wait for the pears to ripen.
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I have never tried the fruit? Maybe next year I will watch for it!
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It should be ready now. (Red pears on top) Don’t touch without gloves.
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Really? Ok…will look when the sun comes up!! Haven’t really paid attention before! Thanks.
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And the fruit is edible.
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That is what I read but I never see the fruit, probably because I am not looking for it :). Next year I will have to pay more attention!
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I love desert! Thank you for posting these beautiful images!
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Your welcome! It is always fun to watch them because you never expect them to bloom…they just have flowers! They are so pretty I wish they would keep blooming!
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Their fruit is beautiful too.
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I will have to look closer…John Howell said they should be out now? I learn alot just listening to all of you! Thanks!
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Aren’t they gone by now? I have never been in desert in autumn, but in spring all the opuntia species look gorgeous. Nothing like desert in bloom 🙂
Have a great weekend!
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OK…I had Sandy go out and take pictures and I tried the red “fruit”…waiting to see if it was poisonous! Ahhhhh…just kidding…They are just little things but they taste OK…No idea how to fix them or do you just split them open and eat them? Had no idea that was the fruit! Thanks guys!
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