Echeveria Ebony is a popular Agavoides cultivar with pointy edges. It is a great collectable succulent that will reward you with a fantastic display of colour in the cooler months or when the plant is stressed. Ebony can be quite expensive as it is not one of those succulents that grow fast or spread prolifically….

Sand is often being mentioned as an important ingredient in succulent potting mix and it is indeed used in creating all kinds of growing media. But can you grow succulents in just sand? Sand, as a single ingredient, is not suitable to grow succulents. Sand is incredibly heavy and holds onto too much water once…

Succulents can look absolutely fabulous in pots and there is nothing like a good, colourful succulent arrangement in a pretty pot. But are succulents meant to grow in pots and will they survive long term? The majority of succulents will grow just fine in pots, but there are a few that grow too rapidly to…

One of the main reasons succulents are so popular is that, for the most part, they are easy to grow and propagate. Some are so easy that you literally only need to drop a single leaf on the ground and next thing you know, it grows into a whole new plant! How To Take and…

There are thousands of easy succulents beginners can try growing but only a small number will also grow well indoors long term. Most succulents are sun lovers and need at least a few hours every day but luckily, there are shade-tolerant plants out there too. Easy Beginner Succulents For Indoors Haworthia Fasciata (and other Haworthia)…

Can you guess what the problem is with the terrarium in our main picture? I’ll help you- it will never survive indoors for longer than a month. Terrariums are incredibly popular, but if I got a dollar for every person that have either emailed us or talked to us at our plant market stall about…