Top 10 Colorful Succulents

1Golden Jade Tree

Especially during the cooler months, this cultivar’s leaves take on bright golden centers with ochre margins. From late fall to winter, look for white flowers tinged with lavender. Why we love it: In shade, it masquerades as its plainer green cousin, the common Jade Plant. What’s more fun than a plant with a secret identity? Colorful Succulents Plants (Crassula ovata 'Hummel's Sunset')

2Paddle Plant

The flat, round leaves of this succulent—also known as Desert Cabbage and Flipping Flapjacks—can grow up to 6 inches (15 cm) in diameter. They begin to blaze red from their tips downward, growing more vibrant with additional sun or cold. From late winter through early spring, pale-yellow blooms open, a pleasing contrast to the fiery leaves.

3Fire Sticks

With a thicket of loosely branching vertical stems, each about the diameter of a pencil, sticks on fire looks almost like something growing on an undersea reef. Also called Red Pencil Plant, it has tips that turn yellow in summer and red in winter.

4Echeveria subrigida ‘Fire and Ice’

Wavy tapered leaves overlap to form rosettes roughly a foot in diameter. Coloring ranges from blue-green leaves with red-purple margins to sea-foam-green leaves edged with dark pink.

5Golden Toothed Aloe

Dark-green leaves with white or yellow prickles bake into hot colors under direct sunlight. But peek at the shaded surfaces underneath and you’ll find tender greenery.

6Jade Necklace

The stacked geometric leaves of Jade Necklace prefer some sun protection yet will still reward you with a rosy blush. In winter, pretty white blooms emerge from the ends of the leaf strands.

7Echeveria ‘Morning Light’

A succulent this stunning must be hard to grow, right? Nope! This cultivar is among the most user-friendly you’ll find. Preferring a soil slightly richer in organic matter than most succulents, it flourishes under ultrabright indirect light.

8Red Salad Bowl

Aeoniums prefer a little more shade and humidity than the typical succulent, but they’re still some of the easiest blooms to grow. The large, well-defined rosettes of this red-and-green Aeonium will add class to your containers.

9Sempervivum tectorum ‘Royanum’

Why settle for plain old Hens and Chicks when you can have a gorgeous chocolate-tipped Royanum? A frost-tolerant, cold-climate succulent, it can be safely grown from USDA Zones 4 to 9.

10Coppertone Stonecrop