How to take care of your succulents

Succulents as a whole have very similar care needs. But sometimes particular plants will need slightly different amounts of water or sunlight than others.

Below you’ll find over 180 succulent varieties and information about their specific care needs with the information needed about how to take care of your succulents

You can also purchase our set of downloadable succulent reference cards to save this information to your phone or print them out for future reference!

What type of succulent is right for you?

Browse through the different genera below to learn the needs of individual succulents and where they grow best. As a result if you’re looking for indoor succulents, start with Haworthia. If you need snow loving outdoor succulents start with Sempervivum. And if you’re looking for heat loving succulents, take a look at Opuntia or Agave.

What are exactly succulents

By definition, succulent plants are drought-resistant plants in which the leaves, stem, or roots have become more than usually fleshy by the development of water-storing tissue^.

 Other sources exclude roots as in the definition “a plant with thick, fleshy and swollen stems and/or leaves, adapted to dry environments”.

So, a further difficulty for general identification is that plant families are neither succulent nor non-succulent and can contain both.

In many genera and families, there is a continuous gradation from plants with thin leaves and normal stems to those with very clearly thickened and fleshy leaves or stems. The succulent characteristic becomes meaningless for dividing plants into genera and families.