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Aeonium 'Jolly Clusters' - A flat topped low growing succulent that forms a cluster of densely overlapping bright green slightly hair leaves that lay flat like a group of plates. We have not seen this plant bloom but typically the one known parent species has a solitary rosette and blooms only once when mature with yellow flowers in the spring and then the plant declines. Since this hybrid branches, it is not clear yet whether all rosettes will flower gregariously and then the plant perish or whether some rosettes will bloom while others do not, and the plant will then continue to live.
Plant in part sun to full along the coast in a well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally. It has proven hardy to 30° F and likely can take it a bit lower for short durations. This plant should prove to do well in the succulent garden or planted in a rock wall, or in a container. Aeonium 'Jolly Clusters' is a garden hybrid discovered growing beneath plants of Aeonium tabuliforme growing on a rock wall in the Goleta California garden of plantsman John Bleck. Mr. Bleck has many other Aeonium in the garden and the other parent is not known but from the proximity and characteristics of the plant it is speculated that the seed parent was Aeonium tabuliforme, a plant native to the Canary Islands that grows as a solitary flat large round rosette that hugs the ground and is aptly commonly called the Dinner Plate Aeonium. The name "Jolly" used on a series of plants originated with John Bleck's naming of Aeonium 'Jolly Green', a plant he discovered growing in his garden that we first introduced in 1998. Since that time we have named several additional plants from his garden using this moniker. We first introduced this selection in 2014 and grew it until 2019.
The information displayed on this page about Aeonium 'Jolly Clusters' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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