The recent years of drought have turned many a gardener’s mind to the world of succulents, bringing into sharper focus the incredible beauty and astonishing variety of these plants. Those qualities ...

Aeoniums are easy-care perennial succulent plants that are gaining in popularity because they offer striking foliage that brightens winter gardens at a time when many plants are dormant. Most of the ...

Among the luscious foliage spilling out of the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Houseplant Studios, there's one small succulent that instantly charms. With beautiful pink and green-striped variegation, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We focused recently on whether to prune trees and shrubs in January or wait until late winter/early spring. This decision is based on the plant’s bloom time.

This time of year evening night lights burn brighter, the stars shimmer ever so slightly in the night sky and the early morning dew sparkles in reflective light across our gardens. The feelings of ...

Our previous column introduced a project to exchange two groups of plants to provide better growing conditions: moving aeoniums from the ground to containers in semi-shade and moving mangaves from ...

Aeonium is a fascinating and beautiful genus of plants that most gardeners in the Southeast have never heard of. Thirty species are native to numerous islands northwest of the African continent, ...

We hear the message to conserve water a lot nowadays, and it’s little wonder with another year of drought stressing our state. Conserving water is a principle of Earth-friendly gardening and both the ...

What’s wrong with me? I just dumped another horticultural ambition. Four years of hard work gone in one afternoon. Is there anyone else out there with a similar diagnosis? Four years ago I became ...

If you have never been there, don’t let this summer go by without checking out the wonders of WIG nursery in Burnaby. See video of my visit. In particular, you will want to see the exquisite range of ...