I own a very rare euphorbia virosa from South Africa. It looks like a cactus but it’s not. I treat virosa with kid gloves and grow it separately from the rest of my plants. Just brushing across the ...

(This week Succulentophile gives way to an article by Peter Bangayan.) The genus Euphorbia is just one of 300 genera belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbias generally have small, ...

Euphorbia plants, belonging to the diverse Euphorbia genus, include over 2,000 species, with nearly 1,200 being succulents. These plants are known for their unique forms, ranging from wide, fleshy ...

Dr. Herman Schwartz, an oncologist who spent years working with children dying of leukemia, sought a weekend antidote to the emotional stress of his vocation. He found it through cultivating the ...

Winter is my favorite time to work in my succulent garden. It is nothing fancy because I place the plants haphazardly as I acquire them. One of those haphazard acquisitions was my Euphoribia tirucalli ...

The pencil tree — sometimes called pencil cactus, though it’s unrelated to cactuses – is the world’s most common succulent Euphorbia. According to Fred Dortort, author of ‘’Succulent Plants of the ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Q: In answer to the question about ...

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Nothing else looks so good, for so long, with so little attention. So long as you go easy on them. By Margaret Roach The photo in a recent newsletter from Katherine Tracey, a garden designer in ...

The genus Euphorbia is just one of 300 genera belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbias generally have small insignificant flowers and most exude a milky sap, which in most plants are highly ...