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 ...

Even during these cold and bleak winter months, some succulent plants are going through their primary growth period. The “winter grower” (or “summer dormant”) succulents include several popular genera ...

We focused recently on whether to prune trees and shrubs in January or wait until late winter/early spring. This decision is based on the plant’s bloom time. Let’s consider one of the winter growers: ...

"This column focuses on foliage in various rosette forms, in which leaves radiate from a short stem or a compressed growing ...

Today, we introduce the genus Aeonium, which includes 35 species, most of which are from the Canary Islands, northeast of Africa. These plants are characterized by the development of rosettes of ...

Aeonium is a fascinating and beautiful genus of plants that most gardeners in the Southeast have never heard of. Thirty species are native to numerous islands northwest of the African continent, ...

A lot of our garden favorites hail from the Canary Islands, a botanical wonderland off the coast of North Africa. We mentioned some familiar examples in our last column. Two spectacular Canary ...

This time of year evening night lights burn brighter, the stars shimmer ever so slightly in the night sky and the early morning dew sparkles in reflective light across our gardens. The feelings of ...