Yellow flowering prickly pear glows like sunshine

June 06, 2018


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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3 responses to “Yellow flowering prickly pear glows like sunshine”

  1. Lisa at Greenbow says:

    Splendid sunny flowers indeed. That prickly pear is HUGE.

  2. Rebecca says:

    That prickly pear is gorgeous! The flowers is beautiful.

  3. 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