Crassula STACKING Asstortment

There is so much to adore about succulents — we can’t even begin to count all the ways — but this week we want to highlight a crew of ornamentals that just can’t help but be showoffs: "stacked" crassulas. And we love them for that, their penchant for fancifulness: forms resembling spirals, pendants, pagodas, or just un-plain, goofy vertical.

Crassula perforata (String of Buttons)[/caption] They’re not landscape cornerstones or backbone plants. There are crassulas for that type of honorable work; they go by the names jade and silver dollar. No, these crassulas — among them, C. corymbulosa, C. perforata, and C. rupestris — embrace eye-candy duties. There’s a quite lovable “look-at-me-ness” imbued in their forms, giving to names like String of Buttons, ‘Baby’s Necklace', and the previously-alluded-to ‘Red Pagoda’ (aka ‘Shark’s Tooth’). Absolutely, there are a lot of ah-mazing succulent plants. We don’t contend that the rosettes or variegation powers of stacked crassulas tower above all others. That playful vibe of theirs, though, as if they came from a children’s fairytale — that’s pretty special. We can’t dive into every one, some being easier to obtain than others, but here are a few to start you on your journey.