Aeonium in habitat and cultivation

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Stephen. J. White lectured at Sparsholt University Centre Hampshire for thirty three years specialising in Higher Education courses in Landscape and Garden Design whilst also running a busy garden design business concentrating on the restoration / recreation of historic gardens in the UK and abroad.

Upon retirement he became interested in the genus Aeonium after a 2010 holiday of garden visits in Cornwall and whilst initially just growing cultivars he became fascinated by the diversity of their wild parent species from the Macaronesian archipelago and Africa. 

His National Collection of over a thousand half-hardy plants grown in outdoor raised beds and pots and in a greenhouse and cold-frames aids in the identification of true to type specimens whilst also furthering research into the cultivation techniques of some 160 taxa of wild species, sub-species, natural varieties and forma as well as a developing collection of their diverse interspecific hybrids.