Weingartia neocumingii

This common and easy plant always celebrates spring with flashes of bright yellow flowers, small but completely obscuring the plant's top. A nice addition to every collection!

Rebutia senilis 'lilaco-rosea'

This is another nice Rebutia with uncommon pink flowers. R. senilis is known for it's bright red or yellow blooms.

Cleistocactus hyalacanthus

The genus name Cleistocactus refers to cleistogamy - the term describing flowers that self-pollinate without opening. Cactus plants of genus Frailea re known to be cleistogamic in many occasions  but no Cleistocactus is really cleistogamic or even self-fertile.The small opening of those flowers, adapted for hummingbird pollination, resulted in confusion and name misapplication.

Haageocereus pseudoversicolor

Haageocereus is another genus of smaller cereae suitable for collections, especially for thous of us who are lucky to have a greenhouse. The plants are usually fiercely  spiny, and apparently are ready to flower at reasonable size and age.

Mammillaria deherdtiana

This beautiful Mammillaria is a close relative to more resent discovery and more popular M. saboae. The young plants of these species are hard to tell apart and flowers are almost identical.

Echinocereus reichenbachii 'albispinus'

The pretty and easy to grow plant, E. reichenbachii is well known and common among collectors. It is frost hardy and can be grown outside with rain protection in climates with mild winter.

Pediocactus sileri

This uncommon in collections plant comes from Southern Utah and Northern Arizona where it's habitat areas are scattered from St. George to Fredonia
Seeds of this species are commercially available, but the plants are a bit slow due to short spring growing season. It is much easier to get a flowering specimen on graft, which would mean extending grow period through all the summer.