Agave mckelvyana is a small, relatively rare, dwarf species of Agave from western Arizona. This little beauty forms a tight rosette of broad, bluish green, fleshy leaves with small teeth.It is one of the hardiest agaves, can take winter rain and is tolerant of drought and severe freezes.

Agave parryi var. neomexicana is a dramatic specimen. This native Mexican succulent forms a compact rosette of soft fleshy, bluish green leaves. The foliage is wide and heavily armed with dark tipped spines. With the ability to grow 60cm wide and as tall, it is one of the most cold hardy Agave species.

The Cape Aloe is known as one of the most potent healing plants known to man. It is a distinctly handsome plant, with broad, lance-shaped, fleshy leaves and a large candelabra-like flower-head.There are usually between five and eight branches, each carrying a spike-like head of many flowers.

Growing cacti is an addictive hobby and be much easier than commonly perceived. This premium cactus seed mix includes various species of desert types, including the famous and magnificent Saguaro Cactus. They germinate easily, grow slowly, but compared to many plants need relatively little care.

Who can resist a plant with a last name like this? Peacockii is an extraordinary Echeveria, seldom if ever, offered for sale and quite distinct from all other species. Forming rosettes of iridescent glaucous-blue leaves that can become tipped in red. In summer they bloom with spectacular clusters of flowers.

Mesembryanthemum, is also known as Dorotheanthus bellidiformis. This cultivar dark pink flowers with dark centres. This bright, ground-hugging little annual forms patches of brilliant, almost iridescent colour in spring. Useful for growing on sunny slopes, between pavings, or in bare patches in the rockery.

Glistening, red flowers set off by dark centres and small succulent leaves that appear to have been sprinkled with sugar. Producing strong plants with a spreading habit, it bears an abundance of glistening, crispy red flowers with warm red eyes.

Mesembryanthemum (“midday flowering") is a ground-hugging, sun loving, spreading plant, perfect for rockeries, they can also be used between flagstones and in dry walls. This cultivar has white flowers perfectly set off by contrasting dark centres.

Gleaming disks of bright yellow set off by dark centres provide really strong vibrant colour in the garden. Mesembryanthemum (means “midday flowering") is a ground-hugging, sun loving, spreading plants, perfect for rockeries, they can also be used between flagstones and in dry walls.

This is the familiar Livingstone Daisy or, as it seems to be generally known, just "Mesembryanthemum". A cultivated strain of this splendid annual plant with a spreading habit, the plants are covered with flowers in a wide range of brilliant shades of gold, salmon, pink, purple and carmine red.

This bright, ground-hugging little annual forms patches of brilliant, almost iridescent colour in spring. The apricot-pink flowers have dark centres on stems to about 7cm (3in) long, often with reddish stems and fleshy, rubbery, greyish-green leaves.

Dorotheanthus bellidiformis is popular plant better known to gardeners by its former name, Mesembryanthemum. This bright, ground-hugging little annual forms patches of brilliant, almost iridescent colour in spring, often with reddish stems and fleshy, rubbery, greyish-green leaves.