Central Midwest Gardening: July 2012-Plants shriveling up already, 1 by shortleaf

shortleaf wrote:
Haha, that rhymed, "beware the hair on Prickly-Pear!"! I even wore rubber gloves when I did that and still got one of the "hairs" in my finger. Being over 40 doesn't help getting it out, I can no longer see well up close anymore! I got a magnifying glass and it took about an hour of constantly looking for it, but I got lucky when I found it good, and I got it out finally. It does have a real nice yellow flower, the flower is worth having it!

Here was one of it's flowers from a few years ago, from that current one's mother plant. -