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Colorful succulents can do wonders for your interior decor. You can even increase their impact with DIY planters, wall mounts ...

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Discover 27 of the best white succulents you can grow featuring easy care varieties stunning foliage and perfect plants for ...

The popularity of cacti and succulents has made these once-specialty plants widely available and introduced a new generation ...

Succulent plants have been gaining ground in recent years and that's not a turn of phrase but the literal truth. If there's a class of plants that's fueling a 21st-century obsession, especially among ...

Nothing else looks so good, for so long, with so little attention. So long as you go easy on them. By Margaret Roach The photo in a recent newsletter from Katherine Tracey, a garden designer in ...

Succulents are a family of plants that store water in leaves that are typically thick and fleshy. The most common examples are aloe, agave and cactus. Most varieties are extremely tolerant of high ...

Planters come in hundreds of sizes, shapes and designs. Those designed to hold succulents are generally smaller and shallower than planters made to hold common houseplants, flowering plants and ...