Q. My friend has a beautiful jade plant that seems to bloom every year at Christmas. My plant has never bloomed. Why not? –Deborah Washington, Evanston A. Patience is definitely required when waiting ...

Dear Carol: What conditions are necessary for jade plants to bloom? We have three large jade plants, two of which are blooming profusely and one that only has a couple of blossoms. The one not ...

Q: My friend has a large jade plant and it is blooming like an explosion of white fireworks. I didn’t even know jade plants bloomed. Many of her Facebook friends are saying the same thing: They have ...

Ed Gordon has a green thumb in a shade of jade. In 2001, when I wrote a story about his then-25-year-old jade plant, it had a trunk 20 inches around and bloomed every two to three years. Since most ...

Description: The jade plant (Crassula argentea) is a succulent with sturdy branches. Its fleshy, glossy green leaves, sometimes with red borders, are 1 or 2 inches long. Indoors, it grows to about 18 ...

Aside from carefully organizing your furniture and cherry-picking the colors that drape your walls, you can also bring in ...

It is the last day of January and we are still huddling inside. Living plants, especially succulents, help make winter indoors tolerable. Jade plants are some of the all-time favorite succulents. They ...

My wife once said of my mother: “That woman can stick a pencil in the ground and it will grow.” So when Mom gave us a succulent cutting potted in an old yogurt cup with a promise that it would produce ...

In our area, Jade plants, Crassula argentea, are grown primarily as houseplants, which, being long-lived and easy to grow, eventually can become members of the family. Originally from southern Africa, ...

Q: I have a big, old jade plant and something strange is happening. In the last several weeks, some branches broke off the plant that is about 2 feet tall. Here’s the weird part: the inside of those ...