(Song-of-India)

Dracaena reflexa is a tender evergreen shrub or small tree native to Madagascar and Mauritius. The rich green lance-shaped arching leaves spiral the upright stems from base to tip. Mature plants may bear large clusters of greenish-white flowers. Grow this plant as a multi-stemmed shrub or as a small tree pruned to a short trunk.

This handsome and durable plant does well in partial shade and a well-drained but not overly dry growing medium. It makes an excellent subject for a tropical...

(Lucky Bamboo)

Lucky bamboo is not a bamboo but a Dracaena just like the popular houseplant called a corn plant. It is native to the rainforest of Cameroon in Africa and is an evergreen shrub with upright cane-like stems. The canes hold widely spaced, wavy, lance-shaped leaves with white strips and margins. Many cultivars have green leaves or other colors and patterns of variegation.

Dracaena sanderiana has been used as an interior foliage plant for decades, most often in combinations with other plants...

(Madagascar Jasmine)

Though rarely seen in cultivation, dregea has pretty clusters of starry, buttery yellow flowers. Thick, waxy, evergreen leaves cover this slow growing, scrambling, shrubby, vine all year around. It reigns from tropical southern Africa where it thrives in open, scrubby areas along the coast.

Each oblong, oval leaf is leathery, deep green and lightly fuzzy along the leaf veins. Like many tropical woody plants, it blooms all year around in the humid tropics, as long as conditions are favorable....

(Ice Plant)

This beautiful ground-hugging succulent from the Cape region of South Africa is an intense bloomer for frost-free gardens. Its prostrate, shrubby stems spread to form flowing, cascading mats of glistening, jellybean-shaped, bright green leaves. This little iceplant blooms heavily in late spring and early summer, enveloping itself in purple-pink daisy-like flowers with yellow eyes. Flowers open in the afternoon only, and may stay closed on cloudy cool days.

Like most succulent plants, this one...

(Mock Strawberry)

(Indian Mock Strawberry)

(Dudleya, Liveforever)

Evergreen succulent perennials grown for their rosettes of colorful leaves, the 40 or so species in the genus Dudleya are native to northwestern Mexico and the western United States. Typically gray or powdery white, the leaf rosettes usually occur in ground-hugging clumps but sometimes are borne on short shrubby stems. Clusters of starry or bell-shaped flowers are held well above the leaves on erect stems. The red, yellow, pink, or white blooms usually appear in summer.

These handsome...

(Sea Lettuce)

Grown for its ground-hugging rosettes of colorful evergreen leaves, this perennial succulent is native to coastal California from Monterey County to Los Angeles County. The lance-shaped to narrowly oval, gray to yellow-green leaves form broad rosettes that can reach the size of dinner plates. Open clusters of bell-shaped red or yellow flowers poise on erect knee-high stems in late spring and early summer. The blooms attract hummingbirds and butterflies.

This handsome succulent requires ample...

(Fingertips)

Grown for its ground-hugging rosettes of colorful evergreen leaves, this perennial succulent is native to coastal areas of southern California and Baja California. The fleshy, finger-shaped, pale green, silver-dusted leaves form broad rosettes that can reach the size of dinner plates. The up-angled to lax leaves have pointed tips. Open clusters of small starry creamy-white flowers perch on erect calf-high stems in late spring and early summer. The blooms attract hummingbirds and butterflies.

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(Guadalupe Liveforever)

Grown for its ground-hugging rosettes of colorful evergreen leaves, this perennial succulent is native to Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Baja California. The fleshy, spoon-shaped, yellow-green leaves form broad rosettes that can reach the size of dinner plates. The leaves are sometimes dusted with a gray waxy bloom. Plants sucker to form spreading clumps of rosettes. Open clusters of yellow flowers perch on erect calf-high stems in late spring and early summer. The blooms attract hummingbirds...