Gather all the energies of love and attract them to you with some of these red succulents that are ideal to have a February 14 full of passion and affection.Thanks to Feng Shui we now know which plants to use on Valentine's Day for good luck.Meet the red succulents of love and decorate your house

Most of the 150 or so species of Echeveria, native from Mexico to Argentina, grow at high altitude among boulders and in cliffside fissures. And though succulents from such a rugged habitat would seem unlikely candidates for interiorscaping, Echeverias are actually ideal for cultivation on sun

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In August 2020 we wrote about the Agave Snout Weevil – and subsequently received reports from many gardeners about the devastation this was causing. It seems to be active everywhere from Manta Rota in the east Algarve and over to the west coast. Fear not – there are many other wonderful ar

Despised for decades, aeoniums, echeveria and the many other kinds of succulent are now finding favour everywhere. Val Bourne recommends the best.

To the surprise of visitors more used to lavish flower arrangements, the halls at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, have, this year, been decorated wit

Jul. 23 2021, Published 2:30 p.m. ET

For several years now, succulents have been touted as the perfect houseplant for those lacking a green thumb. This is because these resilient cactus relatives don’t require a lot of attention or a lot of water to thrive. In fact, watering them too m

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Gene Tempest -- Globe Correspondent

The most common question succulent expert Art Scarpa gets when he lectures about the plants he’s been growing for almost seven decades is: “How often should I water?”

“And,” he sighed, “there’s no answer for that.”

Sca

I just killed my favorite Haworthia.

It was a beautiful rock hard reptilian looking specimen I'd had for years in a lovely handmade pot. I failed to follow my own advice to back off prior to coming humidity because I wasn't paying attention. But of course it was so hot and they started t