Last spring, I rescued a single paddle that had broken off of its mother cow tongue cactus down in a wash near McClure park here in Wickenburg. I brought it home and planted it in this pot. Last year it grew two additional paddles. This year, it grew two more paddles and each of last year’s paddles have a new paddle.
Verna wants to wait until next year to transplant this into the west side of our property to start a border cactus. Over time, this stuff does spread out. Probably not for a while until it spreads a bit but there will eventually be prickly pear flowers galore in the springtime.
