Crassula Ovata or Jade Succulent Plant Care

Crassula ovata or Jade plants are shrubby succulent plants that make excellent choices for dry landscapes and container gardens. Xeriscaping with drought tolerant cactus and succulent plants has become popular in dry areas or places where water conservation is a concern. Jade plants have thick, deep green leaves sometimes tinged with red on the edges. Read More…

Plant Profile: Crassula Ovata or Jade Plant, great succulent plants for dry gardens.

Right now is a perfect time to plant your succulent garden! It’s still cool and we have rain so you don’t have to water! Jades are in bloom right now. Crassula ovata or Jade plants are shrubby succulent plants that make excellent choices for dry gardens and container plants. Xeriscaping with drought tolerant cactus and Read More…

Growing Crassula Rupestris or Rosary Plants

Rosary Plant is a unique little succulent plant that grows close to the ground and is great for hanging baskets. Rosary Plants grow into mounds 6 to 10 inches high.  The leaves are just barely 1/4” long and arranged neatly along the stem to give it a square look.  The base of the plant’s stems Read More…

Spoon Jade or Gollum Jade Crassula Portulacea Care

Succulent jade plants are great choices for low water gardens.  These plants are easy to grow in hot dry areas and also make great houseplants.  Their care is similar to cactus (without the thorns). One of my favorite succulent plants is named Crassula portulacea, commonly called Horseshoe or Spoon Jade.  Recently they’ve been called Shrek Read More…

Plant Profile: Crassula Portulacea or Spoon Jade or ET Fingers or Gollum Jade

Any more names for this jade species? I’ve always appreciated it for the way it looks like coral, sea grass or some exotic undersea plant you’d find waving with the currents in Ariel’s Secret Grotto. Horseshoe or Spoon Jade is also called Gollum Fingers or ET fingers. These plants can take full sun to light Read More…

Growing Portulacaria Afra Succulent Plants

This succulent plant is sometimes called Baby Jade or Elephant Food.  Portulacaria Afra has small round leaves and thin branches like a miniature jade plant.  They are drought tolerant and make good addition to any low water succulent gardens. The bright green leaves make a nice contrast to the dark brown stems.  In container gardens Read More…

Container Gardening Tips

Containers gardens are a great way to have vegetables and flowers without a yard. Plants can be grown in anything from an empty soup can to an old whisky soaked wooden barrel. Succulent plants are great choices for containers.  They are more willing to tolerate a pot you’ve forgotten to water the last few months.  Read More…

Succulents and Cacti

Growing Drought-Tolerant Succulents and Cacti Hot, dry, Southern California summers, dry winds, baking heat, little rainfall, heavy clay alkaline soil.  No time to fuss over prissy plants.  Yes, that’s my garden.  So, I needed plants that liked the climate — and their solitude. Succulents (and cacti) love heat and sun, need very little water and Read More…

Fall Planting Tips: 3 Flowering Succulent Plants For Drought Tolerant Gardens And Containers

Succulents are plants that are able to store water in their stems and leaves, enabling them to live for long periods of time without water. They are similar to cactus but without the thorns (usually). This is a very large grouping of plants with many different colors, leaf shapes and growth habits.  Most flowering succulent Read More…