Succulents
From rosettes to geophytes, from stapeliads to caudiciforms: forms that are worlds apart, yet united by their ability to store nature’s most precious resource: water.
Thirst takes many forms
“Succulent” does not name a botanical group, but a strategy. Across unrelated families and continents, leaves, stems and roots have evolved into organs able to store water and survive periods of drought. From this evolutionary pressure arises one of the most astonishing varieties of form in the plant world.
Read them
Leaves, stems, and roots reveal different ways of coping with scarcity. Learning to recognize them means understanding the plant even before you grow it.
Follow their rhythm
Light, water, substrate and dormancy do not follow a universal formula. Good cultivation begins with understanding the origin, growing season and rhythm of each species.
Choose them
Known provenance and propagation in cultivation turn a botanical passion into a tool for knowledge and the protection of natural habitats.
Succulence in many forms
Succulence spans botanical families, continents and very different habitats. At the Festival, you can encounter it in the collections and nursery production of growers who have made this biodiversity their speciality.
