Learn about different plants and succulents for your garden

A unique, densely carpeting groundcover with fine white cotton like threads between the leaves tips that form a cobweb appearance. Aptly called “Cobweb Buttons” this plant is one of the many sempervivums in cultivar today. The green leaves can change colors with the seasons to a deep red, almost purple hue. Many sempervivum have the common name, “Hens & Chicks”, referring to the growth pattern of the plant. These sempervivum are easily divided as the new growth forms around the “hen”, motherplant, with the “chicks” popping up around it. Extremely hardy cultivar tolerating temperatures well below freezing, plant in rock gardens to fill in crevasses, containers, or an excellent application for living walls.

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Aeonium Garnet

A striking, low growing plant, that reaches up to 3’ tall, offsetting heavily with big, round, rosettes, that have a fantastic dark bronze color in full sun. Hybridized by Jack Catlin when he crossed ‘zwartkopf’ and tabuliforme. Three plants emerged, with one not...

Gold Moss Sedum (De Oro)

Graptopetalum paraguayensis , or the "ghost plant", is a great, trailing, wandering, ground cover. We love the colors that this plant brings out in a design, complementing the blues, pinks, and purples that so many of the gorgeous succulents have to offer. Each plant...

Echeveria Lola

Slow growing, highly collectible, iridescent color, great container accent, easily one of the most sought after echeveria we grow. Not many succulents are white, but a white echeveria like ‘lola’ can work in almost an arrangement. Lola, a hyrbid of Dick Wright,...

Tree Aloes – Aloe Thraskii

Aloe is an enormous genus containing well over 500 different species and it can be quiet overwhelming, but the beauty of this large genus, native to Africa, is that it is so vast. There are endless applications for aloes and one of the toughest things to do in a...

Hybrid Aloes

A little bit about Aloes and their hybrids. The vast majority of aloes, over 125 species, come from South Africa, the remaining from Southwest Asia and Madagascar. Currently, there are almost 500 different species, with many over the last few years being hybrids. Only...

Echeveria (Ech-e-ver-ia)

Echeveria is a rather large genius of succulents, with a wide spectrum of colors and sizes that all have showy rosettes. Because of the rosette forming nature of these plants they were first classified as Sempervivum, but in 1828 the genus was named after Antanasio...

Medicinal Aloe

Blue Elf Aloe

Aloe Blue Elf is one of a few hundred aloes in cultivation today, however, it is one of few that is spineless. The soft tips of this aloe are wispy and gentle to the touch. So often a concern with succulents are their defensive spines. The majority of the succulents...

Succulent Leaves

Have you ever taken a close look at the leaves on your succulents? They can tell you a lot about themselves. While all succulents tend to have a more “plump” appearance, some do more than others. A good, general, guideline with succulents is to water them based on the...

Anacampseros Sunrise

The love plant, or Anacampseros Telephiastrum Variegata ‘Sunrise’, is a marvelous plant for containers. Pair easily with the Echeveria ‘Lola’ for similar slow growing, compact, container design, or use it to brighten up a Bromeliad container. These smaller succulents...

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Sempervivum Arachnoideum “Cobweb Buttons”