Blue star ferns, available from Amazon, thrive in bright indirect light. They grow naturally as epiphytic ferns, under canopies of taller trees, and as such they are great low-light houseplants. They ...

These striking indoor succulents include the tall Aeonium arboreum, which produces leafy rosettes on sturdy branches and can reach up to three feet in height (which could almost be classed as a ...

by ADRIAN HIGGINS The Washington Post Gardeners love succulents for their sculptural qualities, their flowerlike rosettes and novel colors. They can be combined in containers to form mini-gardens.

“You can buy a drop-dead gorgeous Echeveria Rosette succulent for less than the cost of a bouquet of flowers and it will live for years producing bright flowers for several weeks each year ...

Sempervivum or hen-and-chick: This plant is a small, rosette forming succulent that produces many baby plants around the main rosette. Many of these turn beautiful colors with colder temperatures.

And like most succulents, it is very drought tolerant. These silvery rosettes are to me almost works of art, as if nature had given Vermeer the chance to design a plant.

Debra Lee Baldwin 's latest book, "Succulents Simplified: Growing, Designing, and Crafting With 100 Easy-Care Varieties" (Timber Press, $24.95) is a helpful, detailed primer on gardening with the ...

“That floored me,” she said. All right, she lives in Southern California, but the rest of America also has gone succulent-crazy in recent years.

Taylor Cassard, a 27-year-old nursing student in Montana, used a variety of light green rosette-shaped succulents from the Echeveria family in her bouquet for a rustic yet modern look when she got ...

Succulents, including cactus, are generally the plants of choice for green roof projects, like the demonstration garden on the roof of the American Society of Landscape Architects headquarters ...