Welcome to the Forum Barrie enjoy your trip to Arizona.

Hi All, The plant started off as a 2" pad, and grew to about 2ft 6ins lots of nice pads but Never flowered.A pad was knocked off during moving it, so i planted it a few years ago, this plant has 12 pad's & is 2ft tall & gave me much delight when it Flowered.I hope it flower's next year.

An open flower here. (Maybe not the best pic ever posted on the forum tho!:) ).

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Hi All Had a rare flowering event in the greenhouse recently... Opuntia jamaicensis. This plant came from a cutting given to us by Brian Lamb when we visited the Exotic collection MANY years ago. The plant was in flower then but too tall for us to see the flowers, when he bent a stem down for us to ...

HI julie, Hip doing well, I keep doing the exercises so hope Mobility improves.

HI BILL & YVONNE, welcome to the Phorum.Most of my plant's doing well ,had some nice flowers.HIP making good but slow progress.

Hi Monica Welcome to the phorum.

hELLO Susanne if we get to Wales we will certainly look for the Cactus garden.

Hello Marie j Ihope we get another HOT summer & the OPUNTIA performs. will have to feed it & talk to it!

Hi Julie, ihave no clay, just good ordinary garden soil.