Miscellaneous succulent pics

14 years ago

Hello everyone,

I'm not a frequent poster here, but I do enjoy peeking in every once in a while and love looking at everyone's pics. I finally got myself to take pics of my succulents and share them with you all. They aren't anything rare but here they go anyway.

These are some nice colorful succulents and an Aloe Arborescens near the top. This area was planted last fall and most plants were started from cuttings from friends and family.

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Crassula. I think this is Campfire, but it's not getting enough sunlight to turn red. Still, a couple of leaves show a hint of red.

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A closer look at the echeverias and other succulents. Some of these got sunburned last week with 107F.

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An unknown Agave. Does anyone know what type it is?

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This is a section of lawn that I've recently upturned and planted with drought tolerant plants. It use to be the two palms surrounded by a sea of grass, now they are surrounded by aloes, agaves, hesperaloe, furcraea, echeveria, dypsis decipiens, Erica Mammosa, beschorneria...plenty of cool plants.

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A closer look at a section of lawn I ripped out and planted with succulents. There's an Aloe Ferox trio at the top of the mound, some clumping aloes, echeverias, erica mammosa, furcraea...

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And lastly, An overall look at the patio which use to be surrounded by grass. Now, i'm waiting for creeping thyme to fill in and for the succulents to begin to show off. There's also a dypsis decipiens near the right of the pic, as well as on the other side of the patio that blends in with the surrounding plants.

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Well, there you go, I hope you enjoyed them. And please, let me know what you like and what you don't like!

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prayerrock
14 years ago
Oh man those are awesome...you make me want to rip all my lawn out and plant succulents...only problem is the really neat ones wont survive the winters here.

Great pics..just love the echeverias. I am doing some pot sinking in my rock garden with some echeverias and crassula that I will be able to remove for the winter time.

Mary
paracelsus
14 years ago
Inspiring! I have some lawn that I want to rip out and replace with succulent plants, also mostly agave, echeveria, sedum, etc. What you've done is great. The best part is all that hard work went to build something that will just get better and better every year.

Your unknown Agave is probably gypsophila. It looks best in part shade/part sun where it will become very blue. It is often said to be frost sensitive, but I'm not so sure. If you can keep it dry during the coldest part of Winter, it does not get Agave edema and blister. Mine survived without damage sustained temps of around 25F during the great Freeze of 2007. It was dry and spent the Winter under the eaves of the house.

Agave gypsophila:

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Happy growing!
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Central_Cali369
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14 years ago
Thanks for the comments. Mary, I never had luck with potted plants, until I found succulents that is haha. They are so carefree.

Paracelsus,

Thanks, I really have been putting in a ton of work. It's still a work in progress but I've been doing it piece by piece. This is what the yard looked like in May of last year (2008)
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And this is what it looked like this May (2009).
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And this is what it looks like now: (hidden among the petunias are many succulents like Agave Vilmorniana, aloe peglerae, agave sharkskin and Aloe excelsa. There is a grouping of phormiums to the left of the picture too.
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now just give the plants a year or two to fill in and show off!
cactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5
14 years ago
CC,

Yes, that's a great picture you're painting - I'm happy for you. Before you know it it will be you thinning out the patches and giving plant cuttings away or trading them for ones you don't have.

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