Crassula 'Tom Thumb'

I posted this plant last year but the flowers were so profuse, I couldn't resist. So, here it is. An old time favorite: not rare nor hard to grow, but certainly worth having around. As I mentioned before, we've had this plant around for 40 years or so and, even though it tends to get ignored much of the time, it thrives in spite of us. What more needs to be said.

Crassula 'Tom Thumb'

I haven't posted much about Crassulas, so I'll start a brief series with a few of the plants we have in our menagerie of succulent plants.

So first up is Crassula 'Tom Thumb'. It's a small growing plant, so it's ideal for a windowsill growing area. We've had these plants for forty years or so, even if they do sometimes get lost in the mix of other, more rare plants. But the fact that they're still around and, in spite of some neglect, looking pretty good, is testimony to the easy culture of these plants. Plus...they bloom in the Winter and have bunches of small fragrant flowers. It likes semi-shade, but gets some red on the edges of the leaves in bright light.