NURSERY · SUCCULENTS & CACTI

Succulents & Cacti

Sculptural, drought-proof planting for terraces, gravel gardens, and anywhere irrigation does not reach. Agave, aloe, jade, yucca, and prickly pear.

Baby Sun Rose

Aptenia cordifolia

A fast, fleshy-leaved trailing succulent covered in small magenta-pink flowers through the warm months. Covers difficult dry ground quickly and spills attractively from raised beds and walls.

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Hottentot Fig

Carpobrotus edulis

Thick triangular succulent leaves forming a dense mat, with large yellow flowers fading to pink. Genuinely effective for binding sandy banks and coastal slopes where erosion is a problem.

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Foxtail Agave

Agave attenuata

The softest and most sculptural agave, forming large pale green rosettes with no terminal spine, which makes it safe beside a path. Mature plants send up a long arching flower spike like a fox's tail.

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Century Plant

Agave americana

A monumental blue-grey agave that becomes a dominant architectural feature, eventually throwing a flower spike several metres tall once in its life. Serious presence, and serious spines.

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Candelabra Aloe

Aloe arborescens

A large branching aloe that produces tall orange-red flower spikes in the middle of winter, when almost nothing else is in bloom and pollinators need it most. Forms a substantial shrubby clump.

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Jade Plant

Crassula ovata

Thick glossy oval leaves on a stout trunk that thickens into a miniature tree with age. Practically unkillable, long-lived, and equally at home on a windowsill or in a terrace pot.

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Prickly Pear

Opuntia ficus-indica

The sabbar of the Lebanese roadside, with flat paddle stems, yellow to orange flowers, and the sweet summer fruit sold from carts across the country. Utterly drought proof and historically used as a living field boundary.

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Beaked Yucca

Yucca rostrata

A near-perfect sphere of fine blue-grey leaves atop a slowly thickening trunk, ageing into one of the most elegant architectural plants available. Cold hardier than most yuccas, so it works at altitude.

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Zwartkop

Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop'

Rosettes so dark they read as black in full sun, held up on bare branching stems. An architectural plant that does the work of a sculpture in a courtyard or on a terrace, and asks for almost nothing in return.

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Planting something larger?

If you are planning a full garden, an orchard, or a landscape project, we can design and install it rather than supply it plant by plant.

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