Home
What's Hot
Site Map
Ask the Horticulturist
. E-Books Buy E-Books
E-Book Affiliates
. Contests Best Containers 2012
. Buy Cdn. Plants
Sedum
Sempervivum
Cold Hardy Cacti
. Questionnaire
. Buy Plants Online
Succulent ID
Succulents
Succulent Plants
. Xeriscaping
Garden Design Ideas
Wildlife Gardening
Trendspotting
Drought Tolerant Plts
10 Best Xeric Plants
Xeriscaping Directory
Xeria Ezine
Xeriscape Resources
Insect ID
Spider ID
. YOUR Pages
Contact me
Affiliate Disclosure
 

What is this plant in our new home?

by Colleen Sexton
(San Jose, CA)

Aeonium bloom

Aeonium bloom

Aeonium bloom Aeonium in San Jose

Large green rosettes with rounded burgundy edges. Large (18") yellow flower spike. Over 7' tall. How does it propagate?


Drought Smart Plants reply:

This is the most gorgeous, and fleeting of all plants you could ever be fortunate enough to have.

It's one of the Aeonium, and as it's blooming, the rosette will die, leaving behind (with luck) some young chicks around the base of the stalk.

These can be relocated, or left to make a colony.

The rosettes bloom only once, after growing for several years.

If you have the propagating gene, sometimes the seeds will germinate, but that's a long term proposition.

In the picture showing the full height of this wonderful plant there are some rosettes growing lower down which will take over as the lead plant once the flower stalk is cut down (after it finishes blooming, of course).

What a lucky break for you! Congratulations on your new home, and your gorgeous plant!
Jacki

Click here to post comments.





What is Drought Smart Plants all about?

Romantic...

It's all about building gardens with nature in mind...

Romantic Pathway

and Rustic;

Recycling trash into treasure; rustic salvage; unique garden art;

Rustic Wheelbarrow

Xeric...

Find out how to make gardens that are not only beautiful, but easy to maintain, with plants that thrive on challenge...

Xeric Succulents in Strawberry Jar

and Organic.

Learn about organic and sustainable gardening methods to give your plants the best possible chance of being healthy and happy...

Organic Twigs


Like Drought Smart Plants
on Facebook:

Like Drought Smart Plants on Facebook