It’s been two years since we visited this cactus and did some fairly major structural pruning. We removed trunks to simplify the plant’s shape to let its structure come through. This time, the goal was to keep the cactus’ size in check, removing peripheral pads to again show the branch structure. Prickly pear limbs tendContinue reading “Prickly Pear Cactus Pruning: an update”
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Prickly Pruning: thinning out a specimen prickly pear cactus
Pruning a prickly pear cactus for shape.
Iced cactus
Cold weather hit hard this year in Sacramento, reducing a once magnificent cactus to a frozen stump surrounded by shattered branches.