This widely available plant has bright green rosettes on a branching stem. It has a shrubby form and can grow as tall as 6 feet in the garden, or 3 feet in containers.

This cultivar has very dark, almost black leaves.​ It, too, is a fairly large plant.

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Known as short leaf aloe, it's round in shape and its leaves are a bluish hue that turns rosy or golden in the sunlight.

Succulents in the Echeveria genus are distinguished from other succulents like Haworthias and Sempervivums by their plump, smooth leaves that display in a stunning rosette shape. They can range in size from a couple of inches tall to up to 12 inches tall depending on the variety.

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Aloe vera is a succulent plant species of the genus Aloe. The plant is stemless or very short-stemmed with thick, greenish, fleshy leaves that fan out from the plant’s central stem. The margin of the leaf is serrated with small teeth.

Commonly known as the bunny ears cactus, opuntia microdasys can grow up to two feet tall in a container and has spots called glochids, rather than the spikes you typically see on cacti, so you don’t have to worry about getting pricked. Some microdasys opuntia grow yellow flowers, too!

Crassula is a diverse and extensive genus of succulent plants, with about 350 species total. Probably the most well-known of the group is the jade plant (Crassula ovata)—many know it as a houseplant, but in warm climates, it actually grows into a shrub.

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