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A few years ago we were travelling through Texas and I was admiring all of the prickly pear cactus. I stopped at a nursery to try to buy one but they only had large ones. The lady there told me to just stop and take a cutting off of one. She said nobody is going to care if you take a cactus. So that is what I did. I took a very small bit of one and brought it home. I potted that start and it has just grown like crazy. It is now in bloom. It is just beautiful. My sunroom is full of cactus (cacti??). I bought a packet of seeds from Arizona when we were out there in May. I have approx. 2 dozen little babies from those seeds. I guess I'm a bit strange, but I find the cactus to be an amazing plant.
Past Time BearsWell, being a Texas native, I love prickly pear cacti!! For some reason, we even have one or two of them growing on the edge of our backyard woods. The blooms are magnificent and yours is one healthy, robust example, Nina!
Beautiful.
Ruby Mountain BearsyEP! We love it when the cactus blooms!! They are special and beautiful and fragile. My favorite flower is a desert flower the Sego Lily. Let me see if I can find a picture.
I love your Cactus beautiful and looks like you have more blooms waiting to open.
DENBY BEARS
:clap: :dance: Not strange at all, I myself have a catus garden in my front yard, its circle of about three feet around and i kept putting cactus in it from my sisters yard, and some from a garage sale, the circle is nearly full as it multiplies each year. And when it blossoms those wonderful yellow blooms, it sure is pretty.
So enjoy those cactus, there are a bunch of us.
Even tho I live in New Jersey, our winters are not that bad so they live on another year. Take care.
EJ's Crafts
You did a wonderful job of getting them to grow. I live in Arizona and we have a lot cacti in our yard. This picture is a type of cactus that blooms in May for about two weeks. The bees love them as you can tell by the picture. 
PottersHouse BearsI love all of the company I have here. Eva, that is a beautiful cactus. Maybe there is one of those in my babies. The packet of seeds has a variety in it. It even has saguaro in it. They do ask that you return the saguaro to the desert after they are 4 inches tall. In reading I learned that it takes about 10 years for them to reach this size. So I guess I can start planning my next trip to Arizona soon.
Kathy that lily is gorgeous! Oh, to be able to grow them in Ohio.
Now I must confess. My prickly pear cactus has a name. We call him Willie. After we stopped and took our cutting, we drove on down the road and low and behold we were at Willie Nelson's ranch. So my whole family calls him the Willie cactus. I actually have given cuttings to my son and my sister. So Willie does get around.
FenBeary Folk:crackup: :crackup: :crackup: Willie, I love it..........................anyway whatever floats ya boat 
I'm not sure if we can grow them outside here, but hubby is a roses man, not that I get any, well once or twice in the 20 years
I never knew they had such beautiful flowers, thank you for sharing :hug:
Bears by EdieI love your cactus, Nina. I also grown cactus (in the house, they wouldn't survive outside here in Canada!) and we have had quite a few of them flower - although all the kinds we have don't have as spectacular a flower as that! I think they are very fascinating plants - that plus they seem to survive for us! :crackup:
Woodbury Park BearsI love Cactus too!! Down under they grow pretty well I love them because I have them in pots around our pool and can swap and change them around when I get bored and it doesn't worry them at all and they all bloom at different times. Have just put in the first roses we have ever had wait to see what happens there.
Raewyn
I love cactus and yours is beautiful! I have a few little ones in pots that were my mother's. She passed away in 1993. They can live a loong loooong time!
Beth
