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Succulents are a great introduction to gardening and have become increasingly popular in the last few years.

Extremely low maintenance and versatile, they’re suited to all types of spaces and gardeners. Even if you don’t have a garden, you can still grow them.

They’re suitable for all sorts of containers: clay pots, recycle ceramic cups, tea pots and anything else you can think of. Just make sure you add holes in the bottom for drainage.

Compared to other plants succulents need less water and more air in their potting mix. In a dry summer climate, you can use a regular mix but in a more humid environment it can be useful to add some sand or gravel to your potting mix to make sure it doesn’t become saturated with water.

Sophie provides three main ways for propagating these interesting plants, turning one into many.

Stem cuttings – simply cut a small piece and remove any lower leaves that could be pushed into the soil. Make a hole in your potting mix and place your cutting in. This will also increase growth in the plant you cut the stem from.

Leaf cuttings - you can also carefully pull a leaf off a stem, but make sure the membrane where it was attached is intact. When you place this on top of the soil a new little baby succulent will grow at the base of the leaf and will start putting down roots into the soil. Then place your tray in a lightly shaded area making sure the leaves don’t dry up while the roots are setting up.

By division – this can be used for succulents that spread sideways. Just remove one of the pups and place in soil.

Josh drops by a neighbour's place to explore her collection of succulents and gets some tips on how to grow them

Jerry offers tips on propagating echeveria

Sophie gets creative and makes sculptural succulent spheres

Costa explores the diverse world of succulents at Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens

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