Growing Aeoniums, the giants of the succulent world.

Succulents have been top of the trend leaderboard for plant lovers for quite some time now. Succluents are actually an enormous group of plants that earn their name from their thick fleshy leaves. These fleshy leaves are natures adaption to surviving in arid climates, an adaption that allows the plants to store water reserves in their leaves.

Aeoniums are a lesser know Genus that sit within the group of plants know as ’suculents’. Aeoniums are extremely varied plants that range in size, shape and colour. For me, my interest in growing Aeoniums began when I first saw that some cultivars and species had the ability to survive winters in my gardens climate.

Aeonium ’Cyclops’ is a large and branching cultivar and became one of the first plants I added to my own personal collection. The following winter, as I had hoped, it survived and quickly shrugged off any battle scars as the subsequent spring inevitably followed. Since then I have been on the hunt for more half-hardy Aeoniums to add to my own tropical style garden. In this video I show you my latest additions of apparent UK winter hardy Aeoniums and also share a few Aeoniums from my existing collection.