Every summer, succulent forums and social media groups fill with the same panicked question: “My aeonium is dropping all its leaves, the rosettes are closing up, and it looks like it’s dying — what’s wrong?” The answer, almost always, is: nothing. Your aeonium is dormant. It is doing exactly what 40 million years of evolution… Continue reading Aeonium Dormancy
Category: aeonium
How to Propagate Aeonium: Stem Cuttings, Offsets, Beheading, and Seed
Aeoniums are among the easiest of all succulents to propagate — but the method you use, and the timing, depends entirely on which type of aeonium you are growing. The genus contains approximately 40 species with radically different growth forms: multi-branched tree aeoniums that yield abundant stem cuttings, clump-forming rosette species that produce basal offsets,… Continue reading How to Propagate Aeonium: Stem Cuttings, Offsets, Beheading, and Seed
How to Grow and Care for Aeonium: The Complete Guide
Aeonium is a genus of approximately 40 species of rosette-forming succulent plants in the family Crassulaceae, native to the Canary Islands, Madeira, Cape Verde, Morocco, and — remarkably — the highlands of East Africa and Yemen. Often called tree houseleeks, aeoniums are among the most ornamental and architecturally varied of all succulents, ranging from flat… Continue reading How to Grow and Care for Aeonium: The Complete Guide