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Here’s what garden and patio plants you can save for next spring. As the temperatures start to drop and sweater weather arrives, you may start to look sadly at your beautiful, lush garden plants.
Plectranthus oertendahlii is a species of flowering plant in the sage and mint family, Lamiaceae.Common names include silverleaf spurflower, Swedish ivy, Oertendahl's spurflower, November lights [2] and Brazilian coleus, [3] though it is native to eastern South Africa rather than Brazil.
Glottiphyllum plants have thick, soft leaves arranged in pairs that are low to the ground and often graze the soil surface. They also have rhizomes. They sport yellow flowers with narrow petals in the autumn and winter. The flowers are sometimes fragrant and around 5 cm in diameter. The species readily interbreed, making hybridization easy.
Portulacaria afra (known as elephant bush, porkbush, purslane tree, dwarf jade and spekboom in Afrikaans) is a small-leaved succulent plant found in South Africa. These succulents commonly have a reddish stem and green leaves, but a variegated cultivar is often seen in cultivation. They are simple to care for and make easy houseplants for a ...
In all the years of gardening endeavors, many of us have found pleasure in growing indoor plants. People like me choose the toughies of the houseplant world − Sanseveria, philodendrons, bird ...
Leaves. Curio rowleyanus receives its common name from specialized leaves which are the size and shape of small peas (about 6 mm or 1 ⁄ 4 inch diameter).Its trailing stems can grow 2–3 feet (60–90 cm). There is a small tip at the distal point of each leaf and a thin band of dark green tissue on the side known as a "window" (see below).
Image credits: _feffers_ Full honesty, Pandas. Yours truly has had a long string of both successes and failures when it comes to gardening. While my cacti, money plants, pines, and singular ...
They are adapted to withstanding a long warm season followed by a colder winter and very little rainfall. They store water both in their stout stems and in their succulent leaves, which typically form a sort of “tube” or “burrito”, appearing U- or V-shaped in cross-section, often with epidermal windows on the top-side.