Colorful and ornamental, easy-care Echeveria species, hybrids, and cultivars are flowering succulents that thrive on neglect and arid conditions in the garden.
They can be raised as houseplants as well.
Highly valued for their unique, thick leaves, echeveria is widely bred and available in a range of handsome shades, from icy blue-greens to rich reds and purples.
In summer, particularly with outdoor cultivation, tall flower stalks shoot up and carry clusters of small, bell-shaped or starry flowers in shades of orange, peach, pink, red, white, and yellow.
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Plant sizes vary but these succulents are typically compact to moderate in size, and grow in lovely, symmetrical rosettes.
Native to semi-desert regions of the Americas, they make an excellent choice for mass planting in borders, carpet bedding schemes, containers, fairy gardens, rockeries, and xeriscape gardens.
But they’re cold tender and need a dry location to overwinter outdoors, or they can be brought indoors in areas with cold winters.
Easily cultivated with minimal water, is your garden ready for some colorful echeveria? Then let’s jump in to explore how to grow succulent echeveria plants.
Here’s what you’ll find ahead:
What Is Echeveria?
Echeveria is a genus of approximately 150 species and hundreds of cultivars of evergreen perennials, ornamental flowering plants with thick, fleshy leaves and stems in loose or tight rosettes.
The many hybrids vary greatly in color, form, shape, and size depending on their parentage, with rosettes ranging in width from one to 20 inches, although most are well under 12 inches at
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Because color is so personal, it’s often one of the easiest design elements to nail down; people immediately know which colors they like and dislike. However, when choosing your garden color palette, don’t forget to consider the mood or atmosphere you wish to evoke. Cool colors have a calming effect, while warm colors grab your attention and elicit feelings of excitement.
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TO A VEGETABLE PLANT, my apartment has to be about as foreign as outer space,” says Britta Riley, who nevertheless gardens it with a vengeance—in a vertical hydroponic system she conceived called a Windowfarm. How to get your own system—and help kickstart the success of this dynamic startup project.
This year, I’m late, late, late—and I’m conveniently blaming circumstances beyond my control. After frozen ground in April, no rain for three-plus weeks in May, and a June of incredible deluges, some of my best-laid plans aren’t looking so swell. Maybe you’re in the same situation. With all the upside-down spring weather that made headlines around the nation, I suspect it’s not just me who fell “behind.” There’s still time for a positive outcome.Ken (below, saving tomato seed), founder of Hudson Valley Seed Library catalog and an organic seed farmer, joined me on the public-radio show and podcast to talk about planting for late summer into late fall harvest (think: pea-shoot salad, a succulent fresh batch of basil and more), and about seed saving.Read along as you listen to the July 13, 201