Desert Horizon Nursery

Cacti

Engelmann prickly pear with round blue-green spiny pads and yellow flowers beside desert boulders

Prickly Pear Engelmann’s

Prickly Pear Engelmann’s

Full sun

Very low

Spring to early summer

Prickly Pear Green / Indian Fig – Desert Horizon Nursery

Prickly Pear Green

Prickly Pear Green

Full sun

Very low

Spring to early summer

Prickly Pear Lemon Bunny Ears – Desert Horizon Nursery

Prickly Pear Lemon Bunny Ears

Prickly Pear Lemon Bunny Ears

Full sun

Very low

Spring

Old Mexico prickly pear with large wavy-edged, nearly spineless pads and yellow flowers in gravel

Prickly Pear Old Mexico Gomei

Prickly Pear Old Mexico Gomei

Full sun

Very low

Spring to early summer

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Prickly Pear Purple

Prickly Pear Purple

Full sun

Very low

Spring (April-May)

Prickly Pear Santa Rita – Desert Horizon Nursery

Prickly Pear Santa Rita

Prickly Pear Santa Rita

Full sun

Very low

Spring (April-May)

Queen of the night cactus with flat strap-like green stems and a large white flower in a patio pot

Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum)

Queen of the Night (Epiphyllum)

Partial shade

Low

Summer

Rat tail cactus with thin trailing spiny stems and magenta flowers in a hanging basket on a covered patio

Rat Tail Cactus

Rat Tail Cactus

Full sun (afternoon shade in low desert)

Low

Spring

Red Torch Cactus – Desert Horizon Nursery

Red Torch Cactus

Red Torch Cactus

Full sun

Very low

Spring to early summer

Roadkill cactus with thin flat green pads branching from an upright trunk in a gravel yard

Roadkill Cactus

Roadkill Cactus

Full sun

Very low

Spring to summer

Saguaro – Desert Horizon Nursery

Saguaro

Saguaro

Full sun

Very low

Late spring to early summer

San Pedro Cactus – Desert Horizon Nursery

San Pedro Cactus

San Pedro Cactus

Full sun (afternoon shade in low desert)

Low to moderate

Summer

Senita – Desert Horizon Nursery

Senita

Senita

Full sun

Very low

Spring to summer

Silver Torch – Desert Horizon Nursery

Silver Torch

Silver Torch

Full sun (afternoon shade in low desert)

Very low

Spring to summer

Silver Torch – Desert Horizon Nursery

Silver Torch Cactus

Silver Torch Cactus

Full sun

Low

Spring to summer

Spiral cereus with blue-green columns whose ribs twist in a corkscrew spiral in a gravel yard

Spiral Cereus

Spiral Cereus

Full sun

Very low

Summer

Spring cactus with flat segmented green stems and star-shaped scarlet flowers in a pot by a window

Spring Cactus

Spring Cactus

Partial shade

Low

Spring

Staghorn cholla with slender antler-like jointed stems and bronze-red flowers among boulders

Staghorn Cholla

Staghorn Cholla

Full sun

Very low

Spring

Stetsonia – Desert Horizon Nursery

Stetsonia

Stetsonia

Full sun

Very low

Summer

Stetsonia – Desert Horizon Nursery

Stetsonia Cactus

Stetsonia Cactus

Full sun

Very low

Summer

Strawberry hedgehog cactus clump with spiny stems and large magenta flowers in desert gravel

Strawberry Hedgehog

Strawberry Hedgehog

Full sun

Very low

Spring

Teddy bear cholla with dense silvery-gold spines on stubby joints above a dark trunk in gravel

Teddy Bear Cholla

Teddy Bear Cholla

Full sun

Very low

Spring

Toothpick Cactus – Desert Horizon Nursery

Toothpick Cactus

Toothpick Cactus

Full sun

Very low

Summer

Totem Pole – Desert Horizon Nursery

Totem Pole

Totem Pole

Full sun

Very low

Rarely blooms in cultivation; parent species blooms spring to summer

Trichocereus grandiflorus clump of short ribbed green stems with large bright red flowers in a rock garden

Trichocereus Grandiflorus

Trichocereus Grandiflorus

Full sun

Very low

Spring to early summer

Twisted Cereus – Desert Horizon Nursery

Twisted Cereus

Twisted Cereus

Full sun

Very low

Summer (night-blooming)

Wheel Opuntia – Desert Horizon Nursery

Wheel Opuntia

Wheel Opuntia

Full sun

Very low

Spring to early summer

White golden barrel cactus, a round ribbed globe with dense ivory-white spines in gravel beside a boulder

White Golden Barrel

White Golden Barrel

Full sun (afternoon shade in low desert)

Very low

Spring to summer; yellow flowers appear in a ring at the crown on mature plants

Woolly prickly pear tree with velvety blue-green pads and orange-red flowers in a gravel yard

Woolly Prickly Pear

Woolly Prickly Pear

Full sun

Very low

Spring to early summer