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Echeveria Echeveria

Growing Echeveria: Tips at a Glance

The drought-tolerant succulent Echeveria is a useful low grower to plant between pavers or stepping stones. For hardy houseplants, choose blue-leaved varieties and plant in sandy soil or cactus mix.

  • Type Succulent
  • Lifespan Perennial
  • USDA Zones 4-11
  • Sun Sun or light shade
  • Water Well-drained soil
  • Where to Plant Edge a path
  • Design Tip Groundcover
  • Companions Sedum, lavender, Irish moss
  • Peak Season Year-round

Echeveria: A Field Guide

Hybridizers have created a multitude of cultivars of the drought-tolerant succulent Echeveria, a low-grower that’s useful to plant between pavers or stepping stones.

Named for 18th-century botanical artist and explorer Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy, who documented Echeveria in the dry limestone hills of central Mexico, Echeveria has more than 200 species. One of the most popular is E. elegans, known as ‘Mexican Hens and Chicks’, nicknamed for the way the plant spreads by tiny offshoots. Echeveria enjoys sun, but not the intense afternoon variety. These succulents are such slow growers that a burned leaf will linger for a good while.

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