No matter your skill level and enthusiasm for gardening, chances are you are at least briefly familiar with the euphorbia clan. This family of plants offers something for the succulent lover with fat ...

Over my many years of visiting various botanical gardens, arboretums and nurseries, I’ve developed a great fondness for and sense of amazement about this genus of plants. Almost every time our family ...

(This week Succulentophile gives way to an article by Peter Bangayan.) The genus Euphorbia is just one of 300 genera belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbias generally have small, ...

If you’re like most gardeners, you’d probably rather spend time plant shopping than grocery shopping. I was on one of those aisle-strolling adventures in a nursery in March when I encountered a plant ...

I've always liked donkey-tail spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites). An easy-care trailing plant with tight spirals of gray-green leaves that remain attractive year-round, it also has attractive yellow ...

From the visual beauty of bright, native, and colorful wildflowers to the tactile nature of many cacti plants and shrubs, a great garden engages all of the senses. When we are building our garden and ...

(This is one cactus family that’s enough to keep a collector busy – and in love with succulents – for a lifetime. And why not? There’s a huge variety of euphorbias – over 4,000 different species – ...

The fairy circles of the Namib are one of nature's greatest mysteries. Millions of these circular barren patches extend over vast areas along the margins of the desert in Namibia. In 1979, G.K. Theron ...