There is so much to adore about succulents we cant even begin to count all the ways but this week we want to highlight a crew of ornamentals that just cant help but be showoffs: “stacked” crassulas. And we love them for that, their penchant for fancifulness: forms resembling spirals, pendants, pagodas, or just un-plain, goofy vertical.

Crassula perforata(String of Buttons)[/caption]Theyre not landscape cornerstones or backbone plants. There are crassulas for that type of honorable work; they go by the names jade and silver dollar. No, these crassulas among them,C. corymbulosa,C.perforata, andC.rupestris embrace eye-candy duties. Theres a quite lovable look-at-me-ness imbued intheir forms, giving to names like String of Buttons, Babys Necklace’, and the previously-alluded-to Red Pagoda (aka Sharks Tooth). Absolutely, there are a lot of ah-mazing succulent plants. We dont contend that the rosettes or variegation powers of stacked crassulas tower above all others. That playful vibe of theirs, though, as if they came from a childrens fairytale thats pretty special. We cant dive into every one, some being easier to obtain than others, but here are a few to start you on your journey.