Menu

Hotlinks:

Gallery: Succulent Gardens

Add
Dappled Shade for Succulents
Carpet Echeveria
Violet Queen Hens and Chicks
Angelina Stonecrop
Blue Spruce Stonecrop
Tricolor Plant
Painted Echeveria
Carpet Echeveria

Common name:Carpet Echeveria
Botanical name:Echeveria agavoides

This attractive succulent has fleshy leaves that form rosettes, with an overall diameter of 12". Foliage is apple green color with a terminal spine and reddish margins. Flower stalks rise up from the center in spring and summer with tiny red and yellow flowers. This plant tolerates full to part sun and needs well draining, dry, well draining, sandy or rocky soil. Beautiful in containers and rock gardens. Great for a Southwest or desert themed garden.

Violet Queen Hens and Chicks

Common name:Violet Queen Hens and Chicks
Botanical name:Echeveria 'Violet Queen'

This attractive succulent quickly forms rosettes of gray green, thick, wide, pointed upwards leaves. Overall shape of plant reminds one of lotus blossoms except this plant is only 5" tall and 8" wide. Cold weather causes leaf color to change to pink. This plant will naturalize. It tolerates full sun in coastal areas but needs afternoon shade in warmer, inland regions. It needs well draining soil and is drought tolerant once it's established. Great for rock gardens.

Angelina Stonecrop

Common name:Angelina Stonecrop
Botanical name:Sedum rupestre 'Angelina'

Brilliant chartreuse-yellow, needle-like foliage forms a quick groundcover. Adds cheery color to containers, dry slopes and flowering borders. Excellent for use as year-round coverage for beds with spring bulbs. In winter, foliage turns orange in northern climates. Evergreen in mild climates.

Blue Spruce Stonecrop

Common name:Blue Spruce Stonecrop
Botanical name:Sedum reflexum 'Blue Spruce'

Blue Spruce Stonecrop is a drought tolerant groundcover with small blue leaves. It has yellow flowers in early summer. It is great in a container and raised planters. It is evergreen in mild winter regions. also known as Sedum brevifolium.

Tricolor Plant

Common name:Tricolor Plant
Botanical name:Crassula ovata 'Variegata'

Crassula ovata 'Variegata' commonly known as Tricolor Jade has soft green and cream variegations with a blush on the edges make this crassula an interesting contrast in the landscape. Fairly slow growing to 2-3' tall and wide. Full sun to partial shade; frost tender. Also, water-wise. Excellent bonsai subject.

Painted Echeveria

Common name:Painted Echeveria
Botanical name:Echeveria nodulosa

A succulent with 1-2 foot long branched stems that lie over horizontally or arch slightly upward bearing 5 inch wide rosettes of absinthe-green, pointed leaves that are slightly concave above and keeled below and are vividly marked with red on the margins and mid leaf. In summer appear the pale yellow flowers marked with red on an up to 2 foot tall erect and unbranched inflorescence. The bracts have a coloring similar to the leaves. Plant in cool full sun to light shade in a well-drained soil and irrigate regularly to occasionally in spring and summer. Hardy to 25 °F. This plant comes from a wide range within central Mexico (Oaxaca to Puebla) where it typically grows on dry limestone hills.

Designer:

Dappled Shade for Succulents
Image: 6 of 20

Photographer: Vicki Anderson

Soils and Compost:

Maintain a two to four inch layer of mulch on the soil surface to reduce weeds, infiltrate rain water, and reduce compaction.

Integrated Pest Management:

Attract, or buy beneficial insects such as ladybugs and lacewings to control pest outbreaks in your garden.