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Aeonium Zwartkop in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Aeonium Arboreum Zwartkop

 

Aeonium 'Zwartkop'

Aeonium or Tree House Leek, is a succulent plant with rosettes of fleshy green leaves. Panicles or racemes of small starry flowers are produced in Spring. This variety is taller than many, and has leaf rosettes that start green, and turn to deep purple in sunlight. Its leaves can be damaged by hot afternoon sunlight thus some shade is recommended in hotter areas. It produces tall flower spikes of yellow flowers in Spring

 
plant Features
  • Aeonium Zwartkop likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Aeonium Zwartkop likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Aeonium Zwartkop is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Aeonium Zwartkop likes free draining

    Free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Aeonium 'Zwartkop'

Latin name

Aeonium Arboreum Zwartkop

type

Succulent

family

Crassulaceae

ph

5.0 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Aeonium Zwartkop likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Frost

    Aeonium Zwartkop is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    Aeonium Zwartkop likes free draining

    Free draining

  • Water

    Aeonium Zwartkop likes very little water

    Very little water

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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Aeonium Zwartkop is 0.30meters x 1.00meters 0.30 M 1.00 M

Aeonium Arboreum Zwartkop

Aeonium or Tree House Leek, is a succulent plant with rosettes of fleshy green leaves. Panicles or racemes of small starry flowers are produced in Spring. This variety is taller than many, and has leaf rosettes that start green, and turn to deep purple in sunlight. Its leaves can be damaged by hot afternoon sunlight thus some shade is recommended in hotter areas. It produces tall flower spikes of yellow flowers in Spring


Flowering

From Mid Spring TO Mid Summer

Panicles or racemes of small, starry flowers are produced in Spring

 

Planting

From Mid Spring TO Early Summer

Plant out after the risk of frost

 

Propagating

From Early Spring TO Mid Autumn

Vey easy to propagate. Break of a rosette of leaves, complete with stalk, and dip in rooting compound, and plant in moist peat-based compost.

 
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