I like funkie rare Sansevieria,
my second choice is funky and rare Crassula.
Cactus I haven't made up my mind yet, but I do have a crested miniature opuntia, that I just love and a miniature blunted/ truncated cactus I like as well I don't know it's name. Norma

Echeverias, undoubtedly!

Echeveria 'Afterglow' which is a rosy pink and lavender blend with pink edging. Gorgeous.

Cactus, probably an Hybrid Epiphitic Cactus (Epiphyllum) (yes they are cactus). I love those huge neon-bright flowers.

Sempervivum, especialy jovibarbas and arachnoidiums.

Opuntia argentinea, grows like a tree, not like an Opuntia. Mine looks like a Xmas tree now, covered with many small yellow flowers. Its 4' going on 5' but max height can be up to 20'.

I'm with dufflebag2002. Look for unusual or rare Sansevieria. The best blooming Sansevieria I ever had was the ugly one - really a fascinating plant with gross rough blue-gray leaves and roots so poor it tended to fall out of the pot unless carefully planted - it just bloomed and bloomed and bloomed.

Norma's got the right idea... I like the cool tubular Sans like singularis, cylindirica v. patula, pinguicula (which I lost :-(...) - there are lots of them. Haworthias are amazing and easy to grow little plants. Don't get too big, and will grow and bloom nicely on a windowsill. Small Aloes species also appeal to me greatly. Of the cacti, I like Rhipsalis and other jungle cacti (Hatioria, too.)

Hope you got some great buys!

Denise in Omaha

I don't really have any room for any more plants, but I figured it was INEVITABLE that I would buy something. I saw a nice Adenium Obesum for $10 from one vendor, but I have one sprouting, so instead, (wanting something different) so I paid $20 for a Pachy Gaeyi, about a foot tall. Not disappointed with it, but I have regrets not picking up the AO, because I was in a mood for a nice caudex.

You should have seen some of the larger specimens. A friend took pictures. Will post when he passes them to me.

Many had Astro Asterias for sale. I have a few sprouts about a yr old. My friend bought a Euphorbia Obessum. I'm turning him into a cacti and succ convert. With my encouragement, he has an Opuntia Englemanni outside in a container. Survived 2 New England winters and is doing fine. He also has 2 Mamms and now this addition. He has cuttings of the Jade I probably killed, which is now indoors again until I see sprouts...

Sage

One more vote for Sansevieria...so easy!

I also like the Pachys...see if you can find P. saundersii or P. lealii....very nice plants.

Agaves (and some Aloes) are another favorite of mine....love the variegated ones, but there are many different and interesting forms....

Fenestraria rhopalophylla, baby toes.

Here is a link that might be useful: Lithops and Whatnots

Being a generalist collector of all types of plant(although I'm positive i dont, and wont ever have, a rep of every type of plant)My years of seeing and buying...I think my favorite succulent is ..Euphorbia ammak variegata. There is NOTHING else like it than can be grown here in the bay area outdoors. There are no other(Oreocereus take decades) huge white cactids.Plus,it's fast,easy plant, and takes high 20's. Finally,it looks great. Pachypodium lamerii gives it competition-but isn't nearly as hardy,or even approaches the size of ammak outdoors. Beaucarnea recurvata...is great,but let's face it,when grown outdoors to most people, it's another Yucca-lol. Everybody notices E.ammak.
Cactus?..Golden barrel...hands down. The great Pasacana's in a dream way(20-60' tall)but not likely to get past the height of a basketball hoop in your lifetime. And my little purple dwarf Opuntia 'santa rita" give so much while asking for so little. Like a good puppy.
Good also are some very blue cereus on the market nowadays. A neighbor down the block had one reach a good 8-10' and wide in about 10 years..they cut it down for one of those cheap plastic sheds.
Nothing rare mentioned-sorry. But,take the plants mentioned and place together and you will have a very flashy,colorful and easy to keep dry garden. Try 'em.

btw,I cleared the mess under my old Ponytail and can now post some photos later of the base. And also,I noticed the very smooth branches. Aloe like.

I had a Pachy Saundersonii sprout last summer with nice leaves, but it got rotted out during the winter. I was moving plus I am very new with seed grown Pachys and how to make them survive the winter.

My Pacycereus Pringlei seedlings are going great. Sprouted last spring, they look like cacti and all still have their leaves on them.

I bought a Pachypodum Gaeyi at the C&S sale and have it in a Southern exposure at a friend's business, a ceramic studio. When he went to Phoenix last week he brought back seeds of Stenocereus Thurberi and Ferocactus Wislenzi seeds. I let him have the pack of 'mixed cactus' which might include a Joshua Tree. He put his in little pots inside a plastic salad container and mine are in a pot covered with plastic. We'll see who has the most sprouts next week. He wants to sell his sprouts, I want to keep mine forever and watch them get big...

As far as succulents go, I like a lot of agaves, particularly Agave gypsophila, A. titanota, A. xylonacantha and A. tequilana. I also have developed a fascination for "fat plants": Dorstenia gigas, Adenium somalense, Adenium arabicum 'shada', etc. I love the Burseraceae too, like Boswellia sacra, Commiphora wightii, Bursera microphylla.

As for cacti, I've always liked Ferocactus (F. chrysacanthus, F. diguetii, F. fordii, etc.), and many of the interesting miniatures: Pelecyphora, Turbinicarpus, and Epithelantha. And you can't go wrong with Astrophytums, Ariocarpus (especially A. caput-medusae), Uebelmannia, certain Mammillarias (M. pectinifera, M. crucigera, M. theresae). I even like a lot of the Opuntioids: Opuntia quimilo, O. bergeriana, O. echios, O. tomentosa, Puna clavarioides, Consoleas, etc. Oh, and I almost forgot about the Pereskias. Columnar cacti are cool too, but they get big. And I forgot about the hedgehogs: Echinocereus kuenzleri, E. nicholii, E. triglochidiatus, and on and on.

Sorry, I've rambled on!

cd