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SUCCULENT CARE
Get expert advice on growing, caring for and propagating succulents. Find out how to water, fertilize, control pests and diseases, overwinter succulents, grow them indoors, and by season and region. Under Varieties, view hundreds of labeled photos of easy-care kinds.
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Wondering where to find and purchase top-quality succulents? Which tools, books and supplies you need? It's all here under Resources, along with nurseries, public gardens and destinations in America's finest succulent city (San Diego) and beyond.
Succulent Updates and Articles
How to Deal with Mealy Bugs on Succulents
If you grow succulents, sooner or later you'll deal with mealy bugs. For newbies, mealies often come as a surprise. Suddenly the plants are dotted and webbed with what looks like lint. Veterans are more vigilant. We check for
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Make a Mounded Succulent Arrangement
Many eye-catching succulent arrangements are mounded, meaning plants are massed atop the container. Mounded arrangements look established right away and are quick and easy to assemble.
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Brody’s Lovely, Low-Cost Succulent Garden
Celebrating the Joy of Succulents subscriber Brody Scotland says her home and its lovely, low-cost succulent garden are a result of "artists and weirdos"---herself and husband Ben---who love bright colors.
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Succulent Lovers’ Favorite Tools
Do you own the favorite tools of your fellow succulent lovers? Consider: We differ from other gardeners in that our prized plants can turn on us. Cacti, agaves, euphorbias and even aloes can act like dogs who resent having their nails trimmed. (I don't know about yours, but my Chihuahua is a two-person job.)
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How to Group Potted Succulents
Soon you're tucking containers wherever you can. Nurturing plant parents tend to be more concerned about where succulents will thrive than where they'll look good. But it IS possible to achieve both. Here and in the video, I offer three concepts that will help.
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Two 2021 Calendars: Cactus AND Succulents
I've created two 2021 calendars! Each offers a year's worth of wall art. Here you'll find a bit of backstory, plus my calendar images and plant IDs. Enjoy!
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My Channel Passed 6,000,000+ Views! But…
Exciting news: My YouTube Channel has soared past 6,000,000 views! It's free and all about enhancing your enjoyment and knowledge of succulents. I hope you'll help me make it even more useful to you (read on).
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Bizarre Succulents
To me, a bizarre succulent is one that suggests something it's not in an eerie way---i.e. a cancerous growth, reptile or body part. When I take a second look and ponder what on earth it is, I experience a deliciously unsettling ah-ha (or bwa-ha-ha) moment.
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Your Autumn Succulent Checklist
This autumn succulent checklist will help you keep your prized plants snug and healthy during the fall and winter months.
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Ten Edible Succulents and How to Prepare Them
These ten edible succulents can go from garden to kitchen. Most are fairly easy to obtain, cultivate and prepare. The mucilaginous (goopy) texture of certain edible succulents makes them---to spin it positively---great in soups and stews. Vitamin C is
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Post-Summer Succulent Concerns
After a brutal, early-September heat wave, I address ten common, post-summer succulent concerns. You'll see them in my a new six-minute video: Post-Summer Care for Succulents (6:49). It's a candid, warts-and-all, behind-the-scenes, damage-control tour.
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How to Repot a Stuck Spiny Succulent
In a new YouTube video, I'd planned to show you how to repot a spiny succulent. For my overgrown corn-cob euphorbia, I picked an art pot in the perfect size, color and pattern. But (yikes!) the spiky succulent was firmly stuck in its old pot.
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