Cactus Central

We've made a conscious decision to only have things in our yard that don't need watering.  There are plenty of people in the valley trying to make their yard look like Florida; somewhere with about 50 inches of rain a year.  Not us!  It's a desert out there and we know it. 

Last year we bought 4 cacti at the Springs Preserve plant show.  One didn't make it through the winter; guess it was just too cold here.  One, a staghorn, is apparently ok but isn't doing anything.  The other two are happy and that makes us happy!  Here's the prickly pear.

You can see he didn't have a very happy winter either.  Of course our transplanting technique pretty much stinks!  But now that spring has come, we've got a new leaf!  Makes us happy.

This other guy is some relative of the first but he's a bit on the purple side.  The new growth is green though.  We'll have to wait and see if it turns color as it ages or if we've got a bi-color plant.
 

As you can tell, I am not exactly a gardener.  Maybe that's why we have so much rock in our yard!

Have a good one.