Keep your weird ones thriving.

Blue Glow Agave

Agave 'Blue Glow'

Blue leaves · Red edges · Great for pots

Snow Glow Agave

Agave 'Snow Glow'

Variegated · Low water · Great for pots

Agave Care Basics

Sun, watering, soil, pot or ground, and frost protection.

Queen Victoria Agave

Agave victoriae-reginae

Sun / light shade · Low water · Excellent in pots

Cream Spike Agave

Agave 'Cream Spike' (often listed under A. applanata or A. parryi)

Sun / part shade · Low water · Great in pots

Whale’s Tongue Agave

Agave ovatifolia · includes ‘Frosty Blue’ selection

Full sun / light shade · Low water · Pots while young

Apache War Club

Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum

Full sun · Low water · Sharp spines

Argentine Toothpick

Stetsonia coryne

Full sun · Low water · Very long spines

Santa Rita Prickly Pear

Opuntia santa-rita (also listed as Opuntia santarita)

Full sun · Low water · Pots or ground

Blue Ghost Cactus

Pilosocereus sp. (ID to confirm)

Powdery blue columns · Pots while young

Totem Pole Cactus

Lophocereus schottii f. monstrosus

Almost spineless · Knobby stems · Pots or ground

Mexican Fence Post Cactus

Pachycereus marginatus

Pinstriped columns · Ground long-term

Argentine Giant Cactus

Echinopsis candicans

Giant night flowers · Spreading clumps

Peruvian Apple Cactus

Cereus repandus

Night blooms · Tall branching cactus

Ocotillo

Fouquieria splendens · not a cactus

Full sun · Drought adapted · Ground preferred