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OP005: Opuntia 'Orang-i-tang' COLD HARDY CACTUS
$16.00
Yikes, look at the color of those flowers! The big, orange juice-colored flowers in June are showy and abundant. The pure gold spines shimmer in the sunshine year around. This is one of the BEST edible fruit producers in our collection. The plum-sized bright red fruit ripen in early October. Orang-i-tang is a vigorous plant with very large ...

OP007: Opuntia 'East Meets West' (O. fragilis/humifusa hybrid) COLD HARDY CACTUS
$10.00
A compact, mounding cushion-type plant with golden flowers in June. Moderate spination. 8" high by 12" wide. Hardy through zone 3. (Kelly Grummons selection, 2003). May tolerate more water than most Western species. Now sold as a rooted plant in a 2.5" pot.
OP026: Opuntia fragilis (Spiny Cat's Paw Cactus) COLD HARDY CACTUS
$10.00
Simple yellow June flowers fade to apricot the second day. The plant is small and compact. 3" high by 24" wide. Zone 2/3. Collected in Southern Wyoming by Kelly Grummons. Sold in 2.5"-pots.
OP034: Opuntia phaeacantha 'Paradox Form' (Prickly Pear Cactus) COLD HARDY CACTUS
$16.00
Lemon yellow flowers in June, vigorous grower, large, red, tasty fruit. Fruit is excellent for making jelly, syrup, sorbet or margaritas! 8" high by 48" wide. Zone 3. Collected near Paradox, Colorado. Sold as unrooted cuttings.
OP035: Opuntia phaeacantha 'Mesa Sky' COLD HARDY CACTUS
$13.00
Abundant gold, red-eyed flowers in June. This vigorous grower has stunning, cinnamon spines, blue pads and TONS of gorgeous red pears. It may well be the best native strain for fruit production. 12" high by 48" wide. Zone 5. Introduced by Denver Botanic Gardens. Destined to be a favorite landscape variety due to its year around beauty. Sold a...
OP043: Opuntia polyacantha x cymochila 'Peter Pan' COLD HARDY CACTUS
$10.00
A non-flowering, perpetual juvenile form. Snow white, short spines on small pads, 1" wide by 3" long. The tight, carpeting cushion is 3" high by 1" wide. Zone 3. Great in the rock garden or in troughs. Kelly Grummons collection from the Pawnee National Grasslands in eastern Colorado in 1990. Now sold as a rooted plant in a 2.5" pot.
OP079: Walk in Beauty ™ Opuntia hybrid 'Prairie Fire' COLD HARDY CACTUS
$16.00
'Prairie Fire' has deep-green, nearly spineless pads that are absolutely covered with flowers in fiery colors of gold and fade orange. It has a low profile, at 6" high, by 36" wide. Zone 4. Sold as unrooted cutting. Kelly Grummons hybrid.
OP080: Walk in Beauty ™ Opuntia hybrid 'Emeralds and Rubies' COLD HARDY CACTUS
$12.00
A beautiful hybrid that showed up in our garden one year. Large, deep lustrous green, nearly spineless pads with double, bright-pink flowers. 8" high by 48" wide. Zone 5/6. Sold as unrooted cutting.

OP118: Cylindropuntia leptocaulis (Long Spined Form) COLD HARDY CACTUS
$12.00
This Christmas Tree Cholla has a very thin, twiggy stems in a mass of one inch long shimmering golden spines. Green flowers followed by ABUNDANT red fruit. 2-4 feet high and wide. Zone 5. This form from Davis Mountains, Texas (Grummons). Sold as 2.5" pot. Plant this with OP024 Cylindropuntia leptocaulis (Short Spined Form) to provide good poll...

OT033: Delosperma basuticum 'White Nugget' PP #15,793 COLD HARDY CACTUS
$10.00
The first plant that I ever patented! Undoubtedly, the hardiest species of HARDY ICE PLANT. 'White Nugget' is a rare, white-flowered form of the compact, easy-to-grow species basuticum. The tight, compact green foliage is literally covered with shimmering white flowers in spring. The flowers begin as the palest yellow and mature to pure whi...
YU022: Yucca glauca (Sky Blue Form) COLD HARDY CACTUS
$15.00
The Plains Soapweed is a dominant Yucca species in much of the central to northern plains of the US. It is the most cold-hardy of the Yuccas tolerating temperatures to well below -50 F. This selection has very blue leaves with a distinct white edge. Leaves are 12-18" long and the greenish-white flowers with red brush marks are densely set on 3...

YU026: Yucca elata (Elfin Form)
$16.00
ADORABLE! might describe this Elfin form of Soap Tree. Found in the mystical Guadalupe Mountains of NM. In contrast with its bigger cousin, this jewel only gets 3-4 ft tall. The 12 inch wide heads of foliage are about 1/3 the size of regular elata. The plant tends to branch at a fairly young age. White flower spikes 3 ft above the foliage i...