Luckily, growing and caring for the prickly pear cactus is simple enough that even a beginner gardener can handle it. As part of one of the largest genera of cacti you can grow that bloom with ...

Prickly pears grow upward with plate-like sections ... Another obvious difference between a Christmas cactus and prickly pear is their growth habit. This will become more apparent as the plants ...

What does it look like? The eastern prickly pear cactus is a perennial succulent cactus, with jointed, curved, flat green stems. Each of its segments is called a pad, and comes equipped with sharp ...