Succulents & Cacti

Live Succulents & Cacti for Low-Water, High-Impact Greenery

Succulents and cacti occupy a category of their own in the plant world — built to thrive on minimal water and often featuring some of the most unusual shapes, textures, and colors available anywhere in horticulture. Our collection of 71 varieties spans classic rosette-forming succulents, true cacti, and a number of genuinely unusual specialty forms.

Classic Succulents

Succulent Haworthia varieties, including Haworthia Limifolia, Haworthia Miami, and Haworthia Savanna, all bring the genus's signature thick, patterned rosette leaves in slightly different forms and colorations. Succulent Gasteria Zimflora and Succulent Gasteria Little Warty offer a related but visually distinct take, with thicker, often spotted or textured leaves. Succulent Crassula Jade Variegated and Succulent Crassula Capitella Red round out the classic succulent lineup with two very different looks — one a patterned take on the familiar Jade Plant, the other featuring a striking reddish coloring that intensifies with sun exposure.

True Cacti

Fairy Castle Cactus offers a genuinely architectural growth habit, with multiple upright, branching stems that create a castle-like silhouette as the plant matures. Succulent Cactus Color Ball and Cactus Graft Yellow both showcase grafted cactus forms, where a brightly colored cactus top is grafted onto a hardier green base, producing a plant with color that wouldn't naturally occur through standard growth alone.

Holiday & Seasonal Cacti

Despite the name, Holiday Cactus, Zygocactus 'Christmas Cactus', and Succulent Cactus 'Mistletoe' aren't true desert cacti at all — they're forest cacti native to humid environments, known for producing colorful blooms around the winter holiday season and tolerating more regular moisture than typical desert cacti varieties.

Unusual & Specialty Forms

Succulent Euphorbia 'Fire Sticks' brings vivid orange and red coloring to narrow, pencil-like stems, creating one of the most visually striking color displays in this entire collection. Variegated Blue Candle Cactus pairs that same kind of bold color with a true cactus growth habit, while Succulent Euphorbia Lactea Mermaid Tail and Succulent Stapelia African Starfish bring genuinely unusual shapes that look more like sculpture than typical plant life. Zebra Succulent and Succulent Agave Twin Flower round out the specialty offerings with their own distinct patterning and form.

Why Succulents & Cacti Are So Drought-Tolerant

Both succulents and cacti store water in their thickened leaves or stems, allowing them to survive extended periods without watering far better than typical houseplants. This makes overwatering, rather than underwatering, the primary risk for most plants in this collection — soil that stays consistently wet is far more likely to cause root rot than an occasional missed watering.

Growing Conditions

Most succulents and true cacti in this collection need bright light, often full to part sun, to maintain their best color and compact growth habit. The forest-type holiday cacti are the notable exception, tolerating full to part sun but generally preferring more consistent moisture than their desert-adapted relatives.

Low-Water Plants With High Visual Payoff

Whether you're drawn to the architectural form of a Fairy Castle Cactus, the vivid color of Fire Sticks, or the genuinely unusual shape of a Mermaid Tail Euphorbia, this collection proves that low-maintenance, low-water plants don't have to mean low visual interest.