Volunteers are currently growing hundreds of Aeonium succulent plants to give away to children visiting the Autumn Cactus and Succulent Show at Harlow Carr.
Young show visitors will be able to pot up an Aeonium plant into its own pot, add gravel and write a label for it.
Harlow Carr features lots of Aeonium plants grown in different ways, so visitors will be able to gets lots of ideas about how to grow their plant when they take it home.
Aeoniums can be seen bedded out for summer in the Sub-Tropicana garden, in displays of pots with other succulents and tender plants, in a glasshouse, and growing as part of an unusual container display in the houseplant section of the shop.
The plant chosen is Aeonium mascaense, a low-growing, clump-forming Aeonium with many rosettes of green leaves which have purple stripes. This plant quickly gets lots of offsets so it won’t be long before you can take more cuttings of your plant.
Anyone age 18 and under is welcome to get a free Aeonium plant.