Agave |
Long lived succulents from Mexico, each with with a rosette of giant leaves.
A mature plant produces a large terminal spike of flowers and then dies after flowering.
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Ceropegia woodii
Featured plant of December 2006 |
This succulent trailing vine has heart shapped leaves and turbular flowers.
Old plants form large tubers and small spherical tubers form along the vines.
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Disocactus
Featured plant of November 2005 |
This species of epiphytic (lives on trees) cactus produces beautiful pink flowers in late Spring, reminiscent of Epiphyllum.
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Dragon Fruit |
This species of night blooming cactus is grown mainly for its showy perfumed flowers and its large edible fruits.
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Furcraea longaeva
Featured plant of July 2010 |
This relative of agaves produces a huge spike of cream / light green flowers.
It dies after flowering, but the flower spike produces numerous plantlets that can be grown on as new plants.
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Hatiora
Featured plant of October 2006 |
This species of epiphytic (lives on trees) cactus produces beautiful pink flowers in late Spring.
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Holiday Cactus |
An epiphytic jungle cactus genus, that includes both the Christmas and Thanksgiving cactus.
A wide variety of colours are available today, from white to red, to purple and yellow.
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Ice Plant |
A genus of cold hardy shrubby plants that produces brightly coloured daisy looking flowers that shine in the Sun.
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Living Stones
Featured plant of May 2004 |
An extreme succulent that grows pairs of stone shapped leaves, each with a translucent top.
The daisy-looking flowers produced in the Summer often dwarfs the leaves.
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Livingstone Daisy
Featured plant of February 2006 |
Livingstone daisy is a low growing annual succulent that produces masses of bringtly coloured daisy looking flowers in the Summer.
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Window Plant |
This extreme succulent grows pairs of short tubular leaves that have a triangular shaped "window" on the top that lets light into the leaf for photosynthesis.
Daisy looking white flowers are produced in the spring.
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Yucca filamentosa |
This yucca does not grow a trunk, but instead the leaves form into a rosette and grow from a rhizome.
In mid summer, mature rosettes grow a large terminal spike, often to 2m tall, containing dozens of white / cream flowers.
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