String of Pearls Plant Care: How to Keep It Alive
If your string of pearls is looking wrong right now - pearls going soft, stems darkening near the soil, the whole thing seeming to give up without warning - the most likely cause is the one nobody expects when they buy such a delicate-looking plant: too much water. Not neglect. Water. String of pearls (Curio rowleyanus) is a trailing succulent from the dry hillsides of South Africa, and every round, pea-shaped leaf is a tiny water reservoir built to carry her through weeks without rain. She is not a tropical houseplant that craves moisture. She is a drought machine that happens to trail beautifully from a shelf. Once you understand what she actually is, keeping her alive gets a lot easier. ...