If you would like to learn more about the past and future deeds or projects of the succulent collection before or after your visit, then immerse yourself in the latest or an older issue of our in-house magazine Spitze! . The exhibition guide leads through the various exhibition areas and the magazine "Succulent Gardens - Stories of a Fascination" explains the history of succulent botany over the last 500 years.

Since 2013, our annual magazine "Spitze!" has been published annually in February in German. The magazine is also an annual report with a review of the most important events and occasions of the previous year. Above all, however, the booklet tells about everyday life in the collection and in the herbarium, informs about innovations from research and discusses the books acquired in the previous year in the library. In the middle of the issue is an overview of all events of the current year.

You can obtain the current issue of "Spitze!" free of charge from the succulent collection, while stocks last, and browse through it online as an ePaper.

All issues of "Spitze!" from 2013 to 2025 can be downloaded from the website of our association .

The German edition is only available as a download.

The exhibition guide provides information on the flora in the show houses, provides tips on culture and care, and shows the development of the collection.

The guide is currently only available in English in the foyer. The subscription is free of charge.

The magazine for the focus exhibition "Succulent Gardens – Stories of a Fascination" (13 May 2016 to 11 March 2018) sheds light on the history of succulent botany and succulent enthusiastism over the last 500 years on the basis of five selected personalities. They are: Conrad Gessner, Wilhelm Ulrich Waldschmidt, Joseph Fürst zu Salm-Dyck, Carl Spitzweg and Jakob Gasser. In addition, the text is provided with additions that would have gone beyond the scope of the exhibition. The introduction deals with the groundbreaking upheavals on the threshold between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, in particular with the new, scientific view of living nature.

The board of the Fachgesellschaft andere Sukkulenten deserves a big thank you for making this publication possible. We would like to thank our Förderverein for covering the printing costs.