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Santa Rita Prickly Pear

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Transform Your Garden with the Purple Santa Rita Prickly Pear 🌵

Looking to add a pop of color and low-maintenance beauty to your landscape? The Santa Rita Prickly Pear is the perfect addition! Known for its pretty purple-tinged pads and vibrant yellow flowers, this iconic cactus from the Sonoran Desert will make a statement in any garden or patio.

With a compact growth habit, this hardy, drought-tolerant prickly pear cactus plant thrives in zones 7-11, and its purple hue deepens in response to sunlight and temperature changes, making it an ever-evolving focal point in your outdoor space.

Why You’ll Love the Santa Rita Prickly Pear:

Beautiful Color: The purple to bluish-gray pads are eye-catching and will only intensify with more sun and drought, adding a dynamic pop of color to your landscape.

Hardy & Resilient: This plant is cold-hardy down to the mid-teens°F, making it perfect for desert landscapes and even cooler climates.

Easy to Grow: The Santa Rita Prickly Pear thrives with minimal care. It’s perfect for xeriscaping, rock gardens, and low-maintenance landscapes.

Vibrant Flowers: In spring, enjoy the sight of bright yellow flowers with reddish centers, followed by edible pear-shaped fruits for a delightful seasonal display.

Perfect for Every Garden:

Landscaping: Ideal for adding a unique touch to your garden or outdoor space.

Erosion Control: The dense growth makes it excellent for controlling erosion on slopes and hillsides.

Container-Friendly: Its compact size makes it a perfect candidate for container gardening. Place it anywhere in your home or garden!

Did You Know?

The fruits of the Santa Rita Prickly Pear, also known as tunas, are edible! Use them in delicious homemade jams, drinks, or enjoy them fresh for a tasty treat.

We ensure that your Santa Rita Prickly Pear will arrive in pristine condition, wrapped for easy planting and ready to grow and thrive. Whether you're a seasoned gardener or a beginner, this beautiful cactus is the perfect addition to any space!


Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Prickly Pear design and application suggestions:

Opuntias, the prickly pear family of cacti, can be used in many different ways. In the landscape, the prickly pear family can be used as a very nice contrast to other cacti and succulents. The rounded pads, beautiful flowers of yellow, orange, red and pink plus different pad colors and sizes offer distinguished contrast in the landscape or in a nice container. Some prickly pear species can be used as a succulent groundcover. Some prickly pears, like the Santa Rita “purple” prickly pear, are ideal as unique pieces interspersed throughout the landscape or a nice contrast to a group of cacti and succulents in pots. Prickly pears are also very forgiving. They will tolerate the hottest parts of your landscape and like it! The prickly pear family also thrives on very little water and can take very cold overnight temperatures.

Why purchase our Prickly Pear?

Our prickly pears are grown in their native habitat right here in Southern Arizona. Raised outdoors with just the right amount of water and fertilizer, they come to you in their natural form. These plants do not come to you from a greenhouse. They are already hardy to whatever growing conditions you have to offer. You will not see any evidence of pads getting skinny and reaching for light. The prickly pears present the same appearance as you will find them in their native habitats.

If you want to plant them in a container for a sunroom, patio or window planter, great! If you want to take your new prickly pear cacti and plant them in the ground, also great! No acclimation needed. Our plants are ready to go!

Reliable packaging and shipping

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

Reliable packaging and shipping

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

Customer Reviews

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Anonymous
Great little cactus

Very happy with my prickly pear, I’ll certainly use your service again thank you

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Ilya Koltunov
Santa Rita Prickly Pear!

My cactus was delivered on time, well packed and healthy. The size even larger then expected. Completely satisfied. Thank you!

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Debra Wilhelmi
Our Santa Rita Prickly Pear

We Love It - Actually got what we ordered!!
It's doing well!!

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Marc Tanenbaum
Prickly Pear cactus

Cactus arrived in perfect shape. Got it into ground immediately.

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Thomas Burt
Exactly as shown.

Cactus arrived in perfect shape and looks exactly like it does in the ad. Been about a month now and starting to get new growth a a bit of a purple blush. Well packaged and shipped, Cactus Outlet will be my go-to cactus shop. Oh, be careful of the glochids (hairs) on the pads when you unpack/plant!

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