Jade Plant

Are you staring at shriveled, wrinkled jade leaves wondering what you did wrong? I’ve been there, more than once. After losing my first jade to root rot and almost losing my second to chronic thirst,…

I have been obsessed with jade plants (Crassula ovata) since 2012. In that time, I have made every pruning mistake possible. I have decapitated them too hard, pruned at the wrong season, and even caused…

Raise your hand if you’ve ever stared at a tall, naked jade stem and thought, “I’ve failed this plant.” Same. Mine looked like a green bean pole for two straight years. Then one desperate afternoon…

I walked into my living room and froze: dozens of perfect jade leaves were scattered across the floor like green confetti. My “unkillable” money tree looked half-dead overnight. I panicked, but after rescuing three jades…

I have murdered exactly three jade plants in my life. All three died the same slow, soggy death because I treated them like thirsty ferns instead of the desert geniuses they are. After that triple…

Eight years ago, every leaf on my 15-year-old jade plant (Crassula ovata) turned bright yellow in less than a week. I thought I’d killed it. I actually carried it to the trash, stopped, brought it…