For beginners, here´s a great book on indoor gardening that will help them succeed with their first cacti or succulent.

When it comes to choosing containers for your cacti and succulents, wood and rocks are very suitable materials.

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is well known for its many excellent garden books. Among these is a wonderful volume that will be of particular interest to cacti and succulent lovers.

The growth habit of cacti vary greatly from low growing pin-cushion types to some columnar ones that are almost shrubby or tree-like.

Among the perennial Euphorbias are a number that were originally native to Europe.

Garden troughs and other planters are excellent choices for cacti and succulents.

Of the many kinds of Euphorbias, some of the most attractive ones have a bushy growth habit.

If you're looking for some small cactus for growing indoors or outdoors in containers, the pin cushion cactus is worthy of attention.

Some other succulents are dwarf enough to grow as houseplants in light gardens.

For gardeners in cold climates, indoor light gardeners offer a way to grow small species of cacti and succulents.