Spectacular Succulents: Robert Cohen's Artful Container Compositions

Think succulents are just sculptural side-show plants? Robert Cohen's dreamy container compositions prove otherwise. A lifelong succulent lover (his father was a florist; he owned Windsor Florist), Cohen combines half a dozen varieties per pot—apple-green aeoniums, cascading donkey tail (Sedum morganianum), rose-tipped kalanchoe—blending tone-on-tone patterns like brocade. He mixes them with contrasting foliage: asparagus fern, coleus, curly parsley. "Everything I touch turns into a bouquet," he says. "No bouquet should be without them."