If you need a privacy hedge to add curb appeal while also protecting the privacy of your home, consider growing a succulent hedge. Succulents are not only low maintenance, but they are also drought resistant and many are resistant to deer, rabbits, and other animals. Read on to learn about the best succulents that …
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Are you looking for a ground cover plant that can provide shade to the ground from summer heat, or simply as a decorative green mat? Succulents are ideal ground covers due to their hardiness, speedy growth, attractive foliage, and tendency to keep their colors through all seasons. Some even have attractive foliage and showy flowers. …
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Everyone loves rosette succulents because their leaves are elegantly arranged like a rose and they maintain that way their entire life. Many succulents grow in a rosette shape, including Aeonium, Agave, Aloe, Echeveria, Sempervivium, Graptopetalum and hybrids, Graptosedum, Orostachys, Pachyphytum, Pachyveria, Prometheum, Rosularia, and some Crassula and Sedum varieties. We have found 35 pretty rosette …
Many people think of succulents as cute, tiny squat species. But many species can produce stems up to 5 feet (1.5 meter) long that grow either upwards, outwards, or trail-like vines. Check out the 25 most popular long-stemmed succulents to add to your collection. Succulents with Long Stems (Hanging or Trailing Stems) 1. String of …
Echinopsis and echinocereus are some of the favorites of most cactus lovers. They both have gigantic, and intensely bright-colored flowers, and they can both be very small or grow to tree-like sizes. But the major difference is that Echinopsis have round, globose bodies with short spikes that are often short or even turned inward giving …
Cacti can appear quite plain for most of the year, but it is often a surprise when they bloom in late spring and last throughout the hot summer months. Cactus flowers come in many different colors, with some species even blooming in more than one hue. Cactus flowers come in the following colors: Check out …
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There are more and more products aimed at improving the soil structure of your lawn or garden. What is the difference between humic acid and biochar? Which is a better choice for plants? Humic acid is better than biochar for plants. Apart from working as a soil amendment in improving water and nutrient uptake, it …
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Do you know that cacti are not only green in color? They can also have unique mottled and marbled markings of creamy white, lemon yellow, fire red and purple. Some of the variegation patterns are formed naturally and some are induced artificially at the nurseries. Take a look at this list to find the perfect …
Mycorrhizal fungi are getting increasingly popular for improving plant health and growth naturally. Evidence has shown that it works well with succulents and cacti. But does it also work with roses? Mycorrhizal fungi benefit roses by increasing the water and nutrient uptake, improving drought resistance, increasing the rooting of cuttings, and increasing flower production. In …
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The various types of roses can be confusing for anybody, even for rose lovers. “Tea roses” have single fragrant showy blooms on each long stem, and both the “Grandiflora” and “Floribunda” are more disease-resistant with clusters of flowers on the same stem and longer blooming time. Apart from that, there are many more differences. Here …
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