Flowering succulents have a way of ushering in beautiful scents and bold colours to your garden. Here are a few flowering succulents you should choose from.

They offer numerous benefits to your garden, such as controlling soil erosion and providing food for local wildlife. While many types of succulents are grown just for their unique and architectural leaves and stems these succulent types are grown specifically for their flowering blooms.

Hoya

With attractive leaves and lightly scented flowers, this succulent makes the perfect low-maintenance houseplant to grow. These vining succulent plants are best grown in warm locations with indirect sunlight. The hoya succulent is a unique case as this succulent doesn’t need flowers to be eye-catching, their vining leaves do the talking.

Hoya bella, also known as Wax Flower Plant, Porcelain Flower, or Bella Plant. It is blooming on dark background

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Orchid cactus

Orchid cacti do the best in hanging baskets outside your patio or just hanging from a tree in your garden. With the right growing conditions, this succulent can produce massive flowers, often in white, bright orange, and sometimes yellow. Just be sure to move the plants indoors in winter as they flower well in sunlight.

Blooming Orchid Cactus. Disocactus ackermannii

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The Moss rose succulent

This low-growing, flowering succulent, moss rose is a ground cover plant, covering your garden ground with a range of colours like white, pink and yellow. It can be grown both as an annual and a perennial depending on which climate zone you are in.

Beautiful Flower, Fresh Yellow Purslane, Moss Rose, Ten O'Clock, Sun Rose or Portulaca Grandiflora Flower with Green Leaves.

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Desert rose

Despite its common name the desert rose is not a rose. Native to the desert regions of Africa, this flowering succulent is commonly grown as a houseplant in a sunny location.

Houseplant owners prefer growing it like the bonsai due to their similarities. What makes it a good option to start growing is the desert rose is a slow grower, taking time to show its beautiful pink roselike blooms.

woman taking care of her potted desert rose plant at her home. Sunlight comes through the window. She wears casual clothes, and taking care of her home garden with love

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Yucca

Several types of yucca succulents are grown as perennials, more especially in dry gardens. The tall stalks of the plants are covered in white flowers that appear in summer.

These white blooms unfortunately do not last very long, fading after only a couple of weeks. Once the flowers fade, remove the stalk and enjoy the succulent leaves until the plant blooms again.

Yucca Succulent plant in bloom

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Ox Tongue

The robust, fleshy leaves of the ox tongue plant are enough reason to grow this succulent plant. When flowering the ox tongue can produce produces tall spikes of orange-pink and yellow flowers. Best grown as a houseplant and placed indoors for the best blooming results.

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