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Succulent Garden Plant List

Succulent Garden Plant List

Sherman Library & Gardens’ most stunning landscape, the Succulent Garden uses form, texture, and shape to a greater degree, utilizing the uniquely bold appearance of agaves, barrel cacti, euphorbias, and others to create an architecturally interesting display.  Rock and hardscape provide an almost mosaic foundation for the myriad desert plants that inhabit this garden. 

A variegated agave plant with green and yellow pointed leaves, centered among other succulents in a garden, surrounded by rocks.
Agave attenuata ‘Variegata’

Family Name: Asparagaceae
Common Name: Variegated Foxtail Agave

A symmetrical agave plant in a succulent garden, featuring thick, pointed green leaves marked with prominent white geometric patterns.
Agave nickelsiae

Family Name: Asparagaceae
Common Name: King of the Agaves
Provenance: Mexico

A large agave plant with a tall central flower stalk grows in a succulent garden bed near a low wall.
Agave ovatifolia

Family Name: Asparagaceae
Common Name: Whale’s Tongue Agave

Four dark, spiky succulents with red-edged leaves planted in soil, surrounded by light-colored decorative stones and a variety of smaller plants from the succulent garden.
Aloe ‘Christmas Sleigh’

Family Name: Asphodelaceae
Common Name: Christmas Sleigh Aloe

A large bromeliad with long, vibrant red and yellow leaves centered in a succulent garden.
Androlepis skinneri

Family Name: Bromeliaceae

A trailing rat tail cactus with many long, thin green stems and vibrant pink flowers, perfect for a succulent garden.
Aporocactus flagelliformis

Family Name: Cactaceae
Common Name: Rat Tail Cactus
Provenance: Mexico

Fennel bulbs growing alongside succulents in a terra cotta pot.
Bowiea volubilis

Family Name: Asparagaceae
Common Name: Sea Onion
Provenance: South Africa

Close-up of a woody shrub, often found in a succulent garden, with small green compound leaves and numerous dark purple berries.
Bursera microphylla

Family Name: Burseraceae
Common Name: Elephant Tree
Provenance: Southwestern North America

A large, rounded cushion plant with dense, spiky green foliage, featured as part of a succulent garden.
Deuterocohnia brevifolia

Family Name: Bromeliaceae
Common Name: Argentine Ball
Provenance: Argentina and Bolivia

Three green succulents from our succulent garden with reddish-purple pointed leaf tips, nestled among small stones.
Echeveria agavoides ‘Lipstick’

Family Name: Crassulaceae
Common Name: Lipstick Wax Echeveria

Several purple-toned Echeveria succulents planted among bright blue glass rocks and light-colored stones in this succulent garden.
Echeveria 'Andromeda'

Family Name: Crassulaceae
Common Name: Andromeda Hens and Chicks

Ruffled, reddish-purple succulents growing among rocks and smaller green plants in a succulent garden.
Echeveria 'Crimson Tide'

Family Name: Crassulaceae
Common Name: Crimson Tide Hens and Chicks

A round, spiny golden barrel cactus with a brown, fuzzy crown sits among gray rocks in a succulent garden.
Echinocactus grusonii

Family Name: Cactaceae
Common Name: Golden Barrel Cactus
Provenance: Mexico

A blue-green cycad plant with long, sharp, pointed leaves growing among rocks in a succulent garden.
Encephalartos horridus

Family Name: Zamiaceae
Common Name: Eastern Cape Blue Cycad
Provenance: South Africa

A pink epiphyllum orchid cactus flower in bloom growing in a terracotta pot within a succulent garden.
Epiphyllum hybrid

Family Name: Cactaceae
Common Name: Orchid Cactus

A small, low-growing succulent from our plant list with triangular, serrated leaves nestled among rocks.
Faucaria tigrina

Family Name: Aizoaceae
Common Name: Tiger Jaws
Provenance: South Africa

Tall, spiky ocotillo plants with green, leafy stems growing in a succulent garden.
Fouquieria splendens

Family Name: Fouquieriaceae
Common Name: Ocotillo
Provenance: Southwestern North America

A split image showing the flowering stalks and large, ruffled leaves of a Kalanchoe beharensis, a standout in any succulent garden.
Kalanchoe beharensis

Family Name: Crassulaceae
Common Name: Felt Bush
Provenance: Madagascar