Got leggy succulents? Off with their heads!
In this new video, I show how to do this while holding my iPhone in my left hand and doing everything else with my right. It's that easy.
I prune my arboreal aeoniums (those in the species arboreum, meaning "tree-like" or "trunk-forming") when they start to look shabby: Every three or four years. In the video you'll see how I snap off the rosettes and use them to create a lovely container garden. The same method is suitable for all stem succulents.
I've grown a dozen different varieties of aeonium in my garden for more than 15 years. Learn more about their cultivation requirements and see a gallery of aeonium photos on the Aeonium page of this site.
I also show how to redo a garden bed that's mainly aeoniums in a popular video: How to Refresh an Overgrown Succulent Garden.
A common confusion
I'm likely to blame for a common confusion regarding Aeonium 'Zwartkop' and others in the arboreum species. As opposed to more mounding, shrub-forming aeoniums, I typically describe Aeonium arboreum, A. arboreum 'Sunburst' and others as having "solitary rosettes atop ever-lengthening stems."
Aeonium arboreum atropurpureum
Laura B. in Queensland asks: "I have a zwartkop that is about 3 years old. It has a main large rosette that has actually started growing 3 smaller rosettes behind it. I am curious as to why it’s doing this? I thought that aeoniums grew a single rosette at the top of their branch?"
These plants do branch over time, I replied. "Mature specimens can become several feet tall with multiple heads."
Aeonium rosettes grow from their centers and drop their lowest leaves. I think the confusion lies in that each branch is eventually tipped by a solitary rosette. "You can remove the rosettes and start them as cuttings at any time," I added. "If you don't, the plant eventually looks like this, with ever-thicker stems and smaller rosettes."
Leggy aeoniums
From my Aeonium page
"When aeoniums get leggy, cut off the tops, leaving an inch or two of stem, and throw the rest of the plant away, roots and all. Replant each rosette as a cutting. Insert it into the soil, so it sits just above the ground. The best time for this is in the fall, after the weather cools, when the plants begin to come out of summer dormancy."
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