These striking, sculptural plants are easy to care for and look good over a long period. Forms include creeping, mat-forming sedums, bold, spiny agaves and aloes, and aeoniums that look like small trees, with fleshy rosettes. They store water in their leaves so can cope with long periods of drought and thrive in gritty, well-drained soil in full sun. Here’s how to get the most from them...
• Make sure your pots have good drainage. Dress the top of the soil with grit to keep their collars dry.
• Use shallow pots for creeping succulents: sempervivums and sedums will even grow well in the holes of an airbrick.
• Hardy succulents like sedums and sempervivums can be safely left out all year, whereas tender species like aeoniums, echeverias and agaves need to be…
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Country Homes & Interiors (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2019