Jade Plant

Recently a person I was talking to referred to these as "just another Jade". Not long after that someone else told me that the Jade was his favorite succulent plant.
It's true, almost everyone has grown a Jade or at least seen many of them, sometimes pretty "ratty" ones. Occasionally someone tells me that they can't keep one alive when killing one is really pretty difficult; they either over watered it or let it get too cold.
Where we are, Jades are a house plant and can't be used in landscaping. But nicely grown, the humble Jade plant can be an excellent and easy succulent accent plant.

Crassula 'Gollum' - Gnarly

Crassula 'Gollum' is definitely in the "mass production" trade, and I strongly suspect that there are lots of plants out there which are labeled a little differently which are just synonyms used in order to sell more plants. But there are differences. Many of the plants I've seen and have had over the years have trunks which are quite smooth.  Others such as this one, however, have very gnarly branches, making them much more interesting. This one we just call "Gnarly".

I've used this plant as the image used on our publicity for the July show and sale of the Oregon Cactus & Succulent Society (July 20-22). But there's one before that, June 16-17, so let's not get ahead of ourselves...