Is It Flowers You’re After?

Nothing exhibits the luxuriant grace of a succulent plant more than its flowers. Dainty, delicate, difficult. Only happy plants produce flowers - but when they do, ooh. What magic wand-wielding fairy must have tapped the top of that plant, you might wonder, to create such a meticulous masterpiece?

Somehow the colors on a tiny succulent flower appear more vivid, more vibrant, than flowers you might find elsewhere. They emerge from a plant like a visitor from another planet - out of place, enigmatic, visually arresting. If a flower is designed to get a plant attention, then succulent flowers are divas. They don’t just get attention - they demand it.

Perhaps the most endearing quality of a succulent flower is its attitude. They are mercurial, unpredictable. You can’t tell a succulent flower what to do. It blooms when it wants to. Sometimes it will stay open for weeks - perfectly pristine, not fluttering a petal. Sometimes it will open for a day, close at night, and be gone for (what seems like) forever.

You won’t experience many pleasures in your garden better than being present when the succulent flowers emerge. Don’t take them for granted. Cherish their arrival. And pray that the hummingbirds notice them.