Hywel's Garden

"Opuntia" refers to the Greek town of Opus.

"Aciculata" derives from the Latin word “acic...

Ferocactus comes from 'fero' meaning fierce.
Pilosus = shaggy - referring to the white hairs on the ar...

Ferocactus comes from 'fero' meaning fierce.
Histrix means spiny.

Natural habitat = Mexico

Origin: Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay.
Hardy to -7 if kept dry.
The flowers are beautiful !

Ox...

Native to San Louis Potosi, Mexico.
It has no spines.

Origin: San Luis Potosi, Mexique but many of the clo...

Native to Mexico. It grows up to a meter tall and produces yellow flowers in the spring. It has areal roots alon...

Native to the Western Cape of South Africa where it occupies sunny and exposed situations on hills, slopes and s...

A nursery-produced hybrid not found in the wild.

Best in full sun but will tolerate part sun.

South Africa ...

Needs bright light or sunshine.
Some leaves fall if moved to a different position.

It grows in South Africa and likes light shade.

Common name = 'Panda Plant'
It comes from Madagascar.
It rarely flowers indoors.
Keep above 15 C and ...

Native to Madagascar.
Needs sunshine.

Native to Madagascar.
Needs sun or light shade.
Water sparingly in winter.
Flowers appear in late winter/earl...

It is native to Madagascar.
It needs a warm room and plenty of light.

Native to South Africa.
Needs sun or light shade.
Keep above 15 C

From South Africa.
It likes bright shade or part sun.

Also called C. mucosa.

Native to South Africa but likes light shade.

It comes from Madagascar.

Native to Coahuila and Durante, in Mexico ... where they grow amongst other vegetationon, on south and east faci...

Native to Hidalgo, Queretaro and Guanajuato in Mexico.
Grows in wild canyons and on limestone cliffs, sometimes...

This has died but I am going to replace it.

A small cactus native to the Antofagasta area of Chile.
It grows at altitudes of 50 - 300 m in coastal deserts....

Named after Colonel James Duncan Graham (1799-1851), Topographical engineer, and surveyor with the eastern porti...

Native to Bolivia and Paraguay.
Hardy to -7 if kept dry.
Beautiful flowers ...

A cactus from the Atacama Desert in Chile.
It grows almost buried under the ground.

Zacatecas - Mexico

Natural habitat - Mexico - San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato and Queretaro.

Native to dry forests of Hidalgo in Mexico, where it is epiphytic on the branches of trees, or scrambling over r...

Origin: Mexico (Oaxaca):

Pulchellus means 'pretty'

It is named after the Sierra de Bocas Mountain range in Mexico, where it grows.

It is very woolly and has hoo...

cymbiformis = boat shaped

It forms dense mats with fairly superficial root system and grows on rocky slopes a...

Keep in light shade, and dry in winter.

Eastern cape, South Africa.

Grows among grass, in rock cracks or under small bushes.

Eastern Cape of South Africa.

Protect from strong sun - likes shade or a bright position.
Protect from frost...

Occurs in a winter rainfall area, which experiences mild frost, -2°C. Summers are hot, up to 44°C.

Keep in li...

Grow in partial shade.

A hybrid plant of unknown parentage.

It is native to Morocco, where it occurs on the slopes of the Atlas Mountains in the surroundings of Marrakesh.

Likes sun but doesn't mind light shade.

Found in the Wittepoort Mts in South Africa.

In it's native habitat it gets rain in summer and winter so ...

South-western S. Africa.

The area where it grows gets rain in winter and summer.

Keep in light shade.

From the Mpumalanga area of South Africa.

Requires some shade.

Origin - South Africa - along the Orange river.

A succulent shrub from central and south Africa.
it needs a bright situation and even enjoys a sunny spot.
Kee...

Water sparingly in summer, keep dry in winter.
Very slow growing.

Tolerates moderate shade but likes sunshin...

It is found in Kendrew, a small area of the Great Karroo, the Northern Cape region of South Africa, in the Gra...

Native to Tarija in Bolivia.

An epiphytic cactus, growing on trees in the coastal forests of southern Brazil.
The name honours the Brazilia...

A small clump forming cactus from high altitudes in the province of Salta in Argentina.

Maybe it's Rebuti...

Argentina

Brazil

Brazil

Borzicactus strausii
High mountains in Northern Argentina and Bolivia.
Flowers are like long tubes which don&...

Echinofossulocactus hastatus
Native to the Hidalgo region of Mexico.

Native to northern Argentina.