My trailing cactus ?

Oh well done! Its such an achievement to get them to flower so prettily

Lol Pamg I wish I knew what we did to deserve them. I think it must just have reached flowering size or settled in to the pot to flower so beautifully. We have not been treating it in any way.

Great S`gran, the flowers are always so dainty...

Green fingers..... :0))

When you showed it in April, it reminded me of the rat's tail cactus, which has elongated stems that hang down. Now after seeing the flowers, I can tell it's a Mammillaria - it has tubercles and the flowers come in between them.
It's very pretty, and I've been trying to ID it for you. It looks like it could be M. capensis ... ?

Forgot to say congratulations on having it flowering for the first time :o)

Thanks Lyn,Pam and Hywel. I googled the name Hywel but I'm not having a lot of success finding it. Should I prune it to keep it to a reasonable size? If so can you tell me how to do that. If bits get broken off will they root. I wish I could remember where we got it.

If you google 'mammillaria capensis' you should see lots of sites describing it, and lots of images of it on a page.

You can't prune it, but you could thin it out by taking some of the offshoots away. Put them in some gritty slightly moist compost, and they will root in a while.

You could also plant it in a larger pot.

Thanks Hywel I have just googled again and come up with this link which explains why so many of the ones I was seeing on the other sites seemed to be upright. Apparently there are two forms, my one which droops and is described as a right handful, and the second one is better behaved and upright in habit. http://www.cactus-mall.com/mammsoc/mammofmonth-Oct09.htm
I don't think I'll be going down the potting on route as it is already big enough and the article is correct it is a right handful because it has hooked barbs, but I will try propagating some of the off shoots. I'll be giving them away if they take because the one we have is sufficient for our needs.
I have also discovered there is a Mammalaria Society and two collections with National Status in UK.

Nice that you've found out about it now ...

Thanks to you Hywel.