January of 2014 and completely by accident I happened upon a Portland house with cactus on its roof (photos here). Over the years I tried to find it again, I was curious to see how the opuntia were doing. Were they still there? Had they multiplied? Try as I might I wasn't able to locate it. Then out of the blue I got an email from my friend Doug Norseth and he'd happened upon the same house, and took note of it's location! Naturally I did a drive by. ![]()
The cactus are indeed still there, but in the 7 years since I first photographed them they hadn't grown much, if at all.
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I find this all very curious. If I were going to plant opuntia on my roof I'd go a little wild. If one or two plants made it through the first year then maybe a dozen plants would follow—but that's me. Obviously these folks are happy with just the two plants. Good on them. I am happy to see they're still there all these years later.
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