Sims aeonium (Aeonium simsii x canariense). This succulent’s bright green leaves are strap-shaped with pointed tips. The leaf margins are lined with translucent cilia, giving them a fringed appearance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Aeoniums are a genus of about 35 succulents with rosettes of thick, waxy leaves that are lime green, bronze, purple, or nearly ...

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 hear the message to conserve water a lot nowadays, and it’s little wonder with another year of drought stressing our state. Conserving water is a principle of Earth-friendly gardening and both the ...

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 ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with Times readers. Q: I purchased a plant of Aeonium ...

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 ...

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What’s wrong with me? I just dumped another horticultural ambition. Four years of hard work gone in one afternoon. Is there anyone else out there with a similar diagnosis? Four years ago I became ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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.