Succulents refer to a wide family and genre of plants with a common characteristics of having,
roots, and/or leaves consisting of fleshy, water storing tissues. You can see how nice and fat all of the leaves
are. Most of them are native to warm climates so this is a way to hold on to moisture when you most need it. All
cactus are succulents but not all succulents are cactus. The cactus differ in that they have no leaves and the stem
contains chlorophyll and functions in places of the leaves. The types of succulents we have, vary, quite a lot!
They come in a range of colors and shapes and sizes to fill all your garden and landscape designs, as well as to beautify
any room!
Succulents are one of the best choices around for multi-seasons of interest
in the landscape. Succulent lovers avoid some landscaping mistakes that we often see.
One of the most common errors
is relying mostly on flowering perennials and bedding plants for color. As a result, the yards may look beautiful during the
spring and summer. But then they typically get a bad case of the summer blahs from which they often do not recover. If it
weren’t for nature’s generous hand in giving us gorgeous fall foliage in rich hues, such gardens would offer almost
no interest in autumn.
Garden designs with succulents provide a point of interest throughout the different seasons
through their exquisite foliage, beautiful flowers, and shapely forms. Succulents can be used to fulfill all the different
basic principles of landscape design, such as contrast, repetition, and texture.
