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Succulents
Drought-tolerant plants with thick, fleshy leaves.
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African Milk Tree
Euphorbia trigona
Practical guidance for growing African milk tree, Euphorbia trigona, including its caustic sap, upright ribbed stems, low water needs, safe handling, and repotting a top-heavy plant.
Aloe Vera
Aloe vera
How to grow aloe vera indoors. Watering, light, dividing the pups, the difference between the gel and the yellow sap, and whether it is safe for pets.
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Baseball Plant
Euphorbia obesa
How to grow baseball plant, Euphorbia obesa. Why it is mistaken for a cactus despite being a euphorbia with irritant sap, why a lone plant never sets seed, and why underwatering is by far the safer mistake.
Burro's Tail
Sedum morganianum
How to grow burro's tail, Sedum morganianum. Why its leaves detach at the lightest touch, a normal trait rather than a problem, siting it somewhere nothing brushes past it, and rooting the fallen leaves into new plants.
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Common Houseleek
Sempervivum tectorum
How to grow Sempervivum tectorum, the common houseleek. Why the parent rosette dies after flowering, why it survives winters that kill echeveria, and how to grow it on a roof.
Cooper's Haworthia
Haworthia cooperi
How to grow Cooper's haworthia, Haworthia cooperi. Why its translucent leaf windows sit mostly buried among grass in the wild, and why it needs far more regular summer watering than a typical succulent.
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Desert Rose
Adenium obesum
Practical guidance for growing desert rose, Adenium obesum, including the swollen caudex, dry dormancy, bright light, sparing water, severe toxicity, and repotting a bonsai-like base.
Dragon Blood Tree
Dracaena draco
How to grow dragon blood tree, Dracaena draco. Why it spends decades as a rosette before branching into its umbrella crown, the red sap once traded as dragon's blood, and why overwatering is the real risk.
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Jade Plant
Crassula ovata
How to grow a jade plant, Crassula ovata. Watering a succulent properly, pruning it into a tree, getting red leaf edges, and why it breathes at night.
Jelly Bean Plant
Sedum rubrotinctum
Practical guidance for growing jelly bean plant, Sedum rubrotinctum, including bead-like leaves, sun colour, propagation from a dropped leaf, watering, and low pest pressure.
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Lipstick Echeveria
Echeveria agavoides
How to grow lipstick echeveria, Echeveria agavoides. Why its pointed leaves look closer to a small agave, what strong sun does for the red leaf-tip colour, and why water pooling in the rosette is the fastest way to lose it.
Living stones
Lithops lesliei
How to grow living stones, Lithops lesliei. The strict watering calendar, why you must not water while it splits, and the annual leaf change.
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Mexican Snowball
Echeveria elegans
How to grow Echeveria elegans. Keeping the rosette tight, why you must not touch the leaves, watering without rotting the centre, and beheading a stretched plant.
Moonstones
Pachyphytum oviferum
How to grow moonstones, Pachyphytum oviferum. Why touching a leaf leaves a permanent mark in its chalky farina bloom, and what triggers its red-orange flower spikes each winter.
Mother of thousands
Kalanchoe daigremontiana
How to grow mother of thousands, Kalanchoe daigremontiana. The plantlets that drop off everywhere, the cardiac glycosides that kill livestock, and containing it.
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Paddle Plant
Kalanchoe luciae
Practical guidance for growing paddle plant, Kalanchoe luciae, including flat paddle-shaped leaves, red colour in strong light, flowering stems, drought tolerance, and toxicity to pets.
Panda Plant
Kalanchoe tomentosa
How to grow panda plant, Kalanchoe tomentosa. Why the rust-brown leaf edges are normal rather than a sign of stress, why it rarely flowers indoors, and the cardiac glycosides that make a flowering plant riskier to pets than its leaves.
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Tiger Aloe
Gonialoe variegata
How to grow tiger aloe, Gonialoe variegata. Why it rots more easily than it scorches despite its tough desert look, and how growing beneath low shrubs in the wild shapes its need for some shade rather than full sun.
Torch Plant
Aloe arborescens
How to grow torch plant, Aloe arborescens. Why it flowers in winter rather than the summer most aloes choose, how it resprouts after wildfire in its native range, and why a plant kept in a small pot may never flower at all.
Tree houseleek
Aeonium arboreum
How to grow aeonium, Aeonium arboreum. The summer dormancy that reverses normal watering, why a flowering rosette dies, and overwintering it outside its own climate.
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Watch Chain
Crassula muscosa
How to grow watch chain, Crassula muscosa. Why its tightly stacked leaves look like a braided zip fastener, the unpleasant smell its small flowers give off, and why stretched, gappy growth from too little light cannot be reversed.
Whale fin snake plant
Dracaena masoniana
How to care for Dracaena masoniana. The single-leaved snake plant that is usually sold as one enormous paddle, why it grows so slowly, and why a whole plant can be one leaf.
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