Each month our editor, Laura Lukes, highlights an outstanding plant, an interesting insect, a fun place to visit, a new technique, or helpful tool.
 

Echeveria “Imbricata” (Hen and chicks)

With it's fleshy leaves and low growth pattern this attractive succulent is ideal for fire-wise landscaping. Blue-green rosettes spread freely, forming dense clumps from two to four feet wide. In the spring pink flowers lined in yellow bloom grace 8-inch stems. Drought-tolerant; frost hardy to 20 degrees this succulent prefers light, well-drained soils, and partial shade in our area.
 

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