Hi Ange and welcome back,

I guess for now just keep things going with water as the location in the old greenhouse has suited for so long.

Personally I've never much minded whether plants are rare or common, in either case they can be very rewarding when they thrive, or improve, with a little TLC.

If you are replanting you'll have to be prepared with some basics on the assumption that the potting mix they were in, may have really passed its used-by-date except for tossing on the compost heap.

Your preparations depend a lot on available cash, available resources, and ingenuity. If you are are a recycler you can probably find what you need. The plants absolutely won't mind what they are planted in, so make do with replacement pots (if the originals break in the process).

Plastic pots may break apart, wire ones may be saved but you might need new lining material - there are commercial liners you can buy or coir/bark that you might have available already.

What you'll probably need are -
spare baskets in case the originals fall apart in the process, and a few pots to spare for making other plants to grow on or give away
potting mix suitable to the plants you are dealing with - if ferns and succulents they will both need a little freer draining than most pot mixes, but you can do that by adding more to one and less to another, of a good brand.
fertilizer - which they are probably lacking a bit - in the form of slow-release in plastic /pellet form or aged manure of most sources
maybe something to lessen transplant shock, like sea-weed emulsion
some LABELS for when you have them ID'd
a tranquilizer or two (for you)
no I'm kidding but the mess upon breaking up a well-established plant and wondering whether you've done the right thing, can throw you a bit.

The potting mix blend, and the manner of breaking up plants, or re-potting them, comes next, and you probably DO need to identify them as some ferns have underground growth and some have rhizomey thingeys (you can tell I am an expert) that are happy to grow on the surface or in or out of the pots.

Posting pics is not hard here, it depends on whether you have them on your computer hard drive or are trying to link from a web-site.

If the latter, you use the link "optional Link URL and cut and paste the location of the photo on your computer.

BUT there are size limits it must be under 61 kb to be accepted, or you will have to downsize it a little.

Sorry for the waffle, clarify more if you can and I'm sure people can help.

Alison

Ok, thanks for the advice :) We've been very busy renovating and working so believe it or not, I have just gotten my attention back to these pot plants!

I'm going to try and upload the photos... they are on my harddrive so it might take me a couple of goes to get it right.

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So just a recap, I'd like to know how best to re-pot these plants or at least reduce their mass so that they fit and have more growing room in their current baskets. I do have spare baskets as I purchased some new ones, but it's whether these plants will cope with being broken up and re-potted.

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No 1 I think is Plectranthus oertendahlii what a mouthful. Makes a groundcover with white flower spikes. You'd be better off taking a mass of cuttings from what's left & see what you can strike. The original plant may be worth saving, can't tell from the pic.

No 2 is a fern of some sort. Dunk the whole basket in a bucket of water, let the airbubbles rise for 15 mins by then it should be well and truly soaked. This will let you break it up easier. Discard all dead bits and old stems. You'll be able to tell what parts of the stem are still alive. I can't tell what type of fern it is from your pic but if it has a root-ball below the surface, that's how you will re-plant it. If it has a rhyzome on the surface, you'll plant the new bits back that way.
3 I think is Burro's tail - Sedum morganianum. It will easily propagate even from every one of those pearly little bits. You need to break it up and in doing so you may lost a lot of leaves, just scrape them up and save them. For the rest I'd recommend cutting off a reasonable, healthy hanging bit about 3 inches and trying to strike it. Use a sandy mix, let the cuttings just sit in the air (not in the sun) a day or two to "heel over" otherwise they can rot.
The other thing with the orange flowers I can't tell from your pic you might have to get closer with the camera -
PS the breaking up now would better wait till spring and growing season

Ange, Alison is full of good advice, as usual, and it is all legally sound. However, I must take issue with her implication that all ferns need a free-draining potting mix. Most in fact do very well in what might be considered overmoist soil, although there are many species that grow on dry rock faces, cliffs with excellent drainage, and in very dry environments generally. You do need to determine the type of soil it does best in, by running a controlled experiment if you can't find out any other way; ie setting up one basket with a highly organic partly clayey soil and another basket with the free-draining mix suggested by our learned friend.
Best of luck!