Tastes change, often.
We can all remember when magenta was as distasteful to people as yesterday's coffee. Then there was odious orange, the color everyone loved to hate. The succulent, sprawling stems are packed with overlapping, crinkled, angel-wing leaves that grow to 3 inches long. Plants form broad clumps from creeping stems that root as they spread, producing thick, tuberous crowns that enable them to endure months of winter dormancy, either outside or in containers. Plants emerge in late spring and begin blooming a few weeks later.