Canadian Gardening: cactus gardening in Canada!, 1 by drivenbonkers

drivenbonkers wrote:
About 10 years ago I found 3 opuntia (don't have the tag) prickly pear cactus marked down at the local hardware store. Didn't think it would last, but tried anyway. Who can resist a plant on sale?

I added another little cactus a couple years later (don't know the name of this one, started as a little grape sized prickly ball my sister brought back from a road trip to Alberta my mother was trying to drown in a dish) lol, the cactus, not the sister.

I tossed the little bit of almost dead cactus into the cactus colony, and hoped for the best.

Last year I renovated my rock garden (1 rock bedrock, lots of pea gravel and a bit of rich soil, lol) and rearranged my little cactus colony. The one little bit of has increased to a dozen or more.

This past winter, the mice had bitten off the tops of the little 'grape' cactus, but they are responding with more little growths. Will they bloom? fingers crossed.

I'm pleased with the result of this renovation, and want to share it with you. The little cactus are difficult to see, they are in front of the opuntia in the front of the garden. (the photo was taken in the early morning, the cactus are about as big as a grape and are grey/green in colour)

Sue