When shopping for hardy succulents for your garden, consider the award winning varieties. These have proven they´re stars during plant trials.

Some gardeners like a challenge, and are willing to grow their own cacti and succulents from seed. Here are some garden kits that will help.

Throughout the year you´ll find a number of new succulent varieties are available. These include ones that are typically grown as houseplants as well as ones for outdoor landscapes.

While the smaller kinds of aloes might be very suitable for growing indoors in pots, the larger bushy and tree-like ones reach their full potential when they are grown outdoors.

If you're looking for some small cacti with unusual shapes and forms, the bishop's caps are just the thing.

Fragrance is a wonderful feature of some cacti and succulent flowers. Here are just a few of the ones that are known for their sweet scents.

Imagine a bushy cactus that actually has leaves. That pretty much describes the pereskias.

For those cacti and succulent lovers who are interested in bonsai, there are quite a few suitable species. For the most part, these succulents tend to be either shrubby, tree-like, or caudiforms.

In a nutshell, indoor cacti and succulents need the correct amounts of water, light, and fertilizer with appropriate soil mix and temperatures.

When it comes to pots for cacti and succulents, terra cotta remains one of the most popular materials.