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Unidentified plant!!!
Hi hope someone can help. Got given this plant, a bit randomly after marvelling at it when viewing a house to buy! It did have a large head full of black leaf type things, but these have almost all fallen of leaving a few green ones shown in the picture. It's not looking healthy at all despite watering it. I have no idea what its called or how to look after it. Help would be very much appreciated! Many thanks Katherine 
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Aeonium. Personally I would cut it back to say 8 inches and try and get it to branch out. The top growth should also reroot.
what's the purple headed item in the bottom right corner? most odd
why is there an N in the middle of the word " environment" . seems somewhat superfluous to me, like the b in thumb.
Tut tut Hosta!
Aeonium - it needs a sunny spot garden in the summer but it needs frost-free conditions in the winter.
Keep it fairly dry at the roots in the winter. In the spring cut it back to about eight inches as suggested, and repot it in a mixture of John Innes No 2 loambased compost and about one third horticultural grit. Put it outside in a sunny spot after the last frosts (usually end of May/beg of June) and bring it indoors again before the first autumn frost.
Hopefully it will shoot again from the bottom and you'll get the lovely black leaves again - it needs good sunny light for these to develop.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/246290673347418577/
Have a read here http://www.hardytropicals.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=7132 and you'll learn how to take cuttings and make more plants too
You could even use the top for a cutting when you cut it back.
Good luck
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My daughter grows these in Cornwall but as much as I like them, they look like a succulent and probably wouldnt like damp conditions, they would look nice in Hosta's newly planned jungle garden.
It's not superfluous if you pronounce it as it's suppose to be pronounced
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A poorly green aeonium and the purple thing looks like a flask Hostafan1
I really was a bit stuck with it but now spoilt for helpful advice.
Hugely appreciated.
Katherine