The Senecio mandraliscae is a spreading succulent that grows 12 to 18" tall with long blue gray pencil-like fleshy leaves. Plant in full sun to light shade. This senecio blooms in the summer months and is drought...
Crassula Jitters grows with wavy, twisting bright green leaves. The edge of each leaf has a thin line of scarlet red. This crassula growers in a compact mound. Plant in full to part shade and water an average amount. It is heat and drought tolerant and even adaptable as a house plant. ...
The Asclepias is commonly known as a tropical milkweed. It's grown as an ornamental garden plant and as a source of food for butterflies. Typical plants are evergreen perennial subshrubs that grow up to 3 feet tall. Uses home garden, cut flowers Full Sun Zone 3-9 Height...
Carex glauca Blue Sedge is a beautiful cool-season growing silver-blue evergreen sedge that reaches only 6-10 inches tall with narrow leaves. It flowers in early summer . It is a moderately slow but steady spreader in a low-water garden, but will spread much more quickly with...
The Crassula radicans Large Red Carpet is a dense low growing plant, growing nearly flat and spreading 2 to 3 feet wide with older stems rooting at the nodes and short upright stems congested with small flat succulent leaves that are green much of the year but flush bright red in winter when grown...
The Echeveria Fire and Ice is a very attractive large rosette forming Echeveria subrigida. They form 9" tall by 18" wide rosettes of wide spade-shape blue-green leaves that are deeply channeled and have smooth margins that are often highlighted with pink or rose tones. In late spring into...
Muhlenbergia capillaris is a warm season grass with striking seasonal color and texture. In late summer, foliage is topped by clouds or rosy-purple spikelets. Flowering continues for almost 2 months into autumn. The capillaris flourishes in sunny exposures with moist to dry...
Crassula Jitters grows with wavy, twisting bright green leaves. The edge of each leaf has a thin line of scarlet red. This crassula plant grows in a compact mound. Plant in full to part shade and water an average amount. It is heat and drought tolerant and even adaptable as a houseplant....
The Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster' prefers moist, rich soil with full-day sun. It tolerates heavy soils and will take the heat if plenty of moisture is present. You can propagate by division in fall or spring. It's great for...
Our featured succulent this month is the Faucaria 'Jaws'. It is a small succulent that is clump forming. It reaches up to 6" tall. The leaves are thick, triangular, light green (turning purplish in strong sunshine) in color up to 2" long. On the edges of the leaves there are upright soft,...
The Aeonium 'Kiwi' forms rosettes of fleshy, spoon-shaped leaves that are brightly colored. The leaves in the center are a pale yellow and progrssively get greener to the outside of the rosette. The edges of the leaves are red. Yellow flowers bloom in the summer. The aeonium is drought...
The Philodendron 'Xanadu' is an evergreen dense low spreading tropical plant that can form a clump approximately 3' tall by 5' wide over time. It has wide glossy green leaves that hang slightly downward. Plant in full sun, bright shade or part day sun and irrigate regularly, especially in the...
Aloe arborescens is a large densely growing succulent shrub. It's evergreen with a red flower. Bloom time is fall/winter and grows 6-8 feet tall with a width of 4-5 feet. Plant in full sun (coast) to light shade. This drought tolerant plant does great in coastal California without any...
The Cyperus 'Baby Tut' is a swamp-loving sedge that grows well in sun or shade and can survive in standing water and will thrive with minimal care. Baby Tut makes an attractive foliage plant, it grows in clumps 24 inches tall and stays green year round in mild climates. Avoid letting the soil...
This clumping, evergreen, Berkeley sedge is one of the best for creating lush meadowlike effects. It can reach 18 to 24 inches tall and wide, although it usually forms a clump 8 to 12 inches tall. It's dark green leaves arch out gracefully from the clump. The spring-blooming flowers are...
The Portulacaria afra 'Variegata ' is a slow growing succulent shrub with attractive reddish-brown stems and variegated cream and green leaves. A very easy to grow succulent that works great in a hanging basket or even a hedge in frost free climates. The...