Near-black aeoniums, inky echeverias and glossy ‘Raven’ ZZ plants add contrast and structure. Learn which dark succulents to choose, how to light them and simple ways to style them at home.
Aeoniums are easy-care perennial succulent plants that are gaining in popularity because they offer striking foliage that brightens winter gardens at a time when many plants are dormant. Most of the ...
Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. THE CANARY Islands, belonging to Spain and ...
Sims aeonium (Aeonium simsii x canariense). This succulent’s bright green leaves are strap-shaped with pointed tips. The leaf margins are lined with translucent cilia, giving them a fringed appearance ...
SEATTLE — Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop' is a beautiful succulent shrub with long bare branches with large terminal rosettes of very dark purple, almost black leaves. It grows up to 3 feet tall. Rosettes ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our previous column introduced a project to exchange two groups of plants to provide better growing conditions: moving aeoniums from the ground to containers ...
Aeonium 'Zwartkop' is a branching shrub that produces magnificent, almost black-purple, succulent, leaf rosettes at the ends of its branches. Aeoniums are natives of Madeira, the Canary Islands and ...
Find out how to grow Aeonium arboreum This pretty, jade green succulent has an upright habit and lightly curved, mainly smooth leaves with small leaf scars. Yellow, star-shaped flowers appear on ...
If you are growing succulent plants, it’s helpful to know that some grow best during the fall and spring, and are summer-dormant, while others grow during the hot summer months through September and ...