Nice job! You will have fun as all the plants grow, moving and rearranging. I like the little blue froggie.

What a fabulous collection. Such variety. And I love the decorative stones and glass additions. Thanks for sharing. I've just started a small area of hardy succulents in my yard and planted them out Sunday. We'll see how they do and whether I can keep the weeds out.

Martha

Thanks! I feel like im always working on this garden. Moving plants around and adding more. Its a lot of fun. I've been getting a lot of cuttings mostly from the Echeveria as they grow very fast. I love how aggressive they propagate through cutting, leaves and stem. I'm am very fascinated by succulents. So much that I've started to grow some from seeds.

@Martha, I haven't been pulling any weeds out but I do have sand as the top layer and that might of helped.

Wow, absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing these!

Where did you get your plants?

@ Neil. I got my plants from Lowes, Home Depot, and this lady off craigslist. She's a huge collector of succulents and she does a huge sale twice a year. There is a place near Monterey that's called Succulents Garden that suppose to have over 600 variety of succulents. I'm going to find some time to check it out sometime.

that's great. i'm always looking for new sources to buy from. Went to Flora Grubb in San fran a few weeks back.

Now why do you people give me ideas that I don't need nor have time for.... j/k

Looks great. Great job!

Tony-

How do you keep it clean from grass, weed, etc?

@and_now_its_en2 - Congratz on starting your garden. It's where it all begins and soon you will have a collection just like the rest of us. Succulents grow and propagate like crazy! Just watch out for overwatering as that's the main reason most succulents dies. My garden happened within a span of a year and I just let it do its thing. I hardly watered it and it just grew on its own.

@Joe92019- I have sand and rocks as my top layer and I think that helps with grass and weeds from growing. I mostly pull out dead leaves that happen to fall and the wind blows it in the garden from a tree I have in the front yard. Even with that, the maintenance is very minimal. Most of the work comes from propagating cuttings/leaves when the plant gets too large or when I see pups that I feel like it will do better in other locations where it can get more sun and grow faster.

This collection is in my front yard and my goal is to eventually transform my backyard into a succulents garden. I'm always looking for new plants that I don't have and it's getting addicting. HAHA but it's really fun and relaxing to see everything grow.

Tony- Questions:

it seems the area you have them planted in is "sloped," which is so beneficial for drainage. Did you landscape it or was it already that way?

Have you been to Flora Grubb Nursery yet or Cactus Jungle? They're not that far from you.

When will you be finished with your backyard succulent oasis? I'm sure many of us on the GW forum in California would love to see it. A quick roadtrip and we could all be there! Two weeks should be enough time for you to be done with everything. We should strive for the 1st week in August. And, just think of it..if everyone brought a plant as a housewarming gift, what a collection you would have then!

@Niel, I landscape it that way to give it of a more natural look. I haven't been to flora grubb or cactus jungle but I've heard of it and been wanting to check it out. I want to check out Succulent garden near Monterey first.

Backyard succulent oasis is going to take a while as I have a lot of plans coming up. I have a spartan race this weekend and I'm heading out to maui/molokai for 2 weeks in the beginning of August. I truly enjoy watching the pups grow and collecting plants from all over the places for my oasis. Plus I'm growing some from seeds and those are going to take a while, but it will be all worth it.

Tony- That's great! There is an incredible nursery/garden right near Hakupokano Loop on the mainland. And, if you go to Molokai..toward the craters, there are succulents there! Not only do they have the Portulacaria Molokinienis but, newer and more rare succulents that have not reached over here just yet. I hope you can acquire some and take lots of pictures to share with all of us.

I will definitly check it out and see whats the regulation on bringing back some plants. haha

ok, have a great time when you go and, don't fall into the mud pit!

Agricultural items NOT PERMITTED into the Mainland:
- Berries (including coffee berries and sea grapes)
- Cactus plants or parts
- Cotton and cotton bolls
- Fresh flowers of gardenia, jade vine, and mauna loa
- Kikania and pandanus
- Live insects and snails
- Plants in soil
- Seeds with pulp and fresh seed pods
- Soil
- Sugarcane
- Swamp cabbage (unchoy)
- Sweet potato (raw)

Wow this looks great. No gardens for me yet, just a bunch of individually potted ones. Once I determine I'm capable of growing them, I'll re-venture back into gardens/arrangements (first couple attempts were definitely learning experiences).

echeveria gibbiflora cristata

Everything will be in pots until I'm ready to plant it in the ground. :D

Oh my... what a beautiful plant in the first pic. Enjoy!

Guess i'll show some of mine,since i'm on here today.

Kathi

That one of my favorites is the one below the picture where the sentence is.

Kathi

Post another with more pics haha :D

I can do that!!! LOL

Kathi

Beautiful plants! Is the first one panda plant? - I didn't see one with pinkish leaves - perhaps different kalanchoe?

I know the one on very right as watch chain (Crassula muscosa) but have seen many other common names: Rattail crassula, Whip Cord, Club Moss Crassula, Princess Pine, Zipper plant, Lizard's tail,Toy Cypress...the plant in front of may be peperomia ferreyrae - did it ever bloom? are there 'windows' on the leaves?

Rina

Hey Tony, can I post pix of succulents from random properties, in other words not my own? Let me know...

SURE!

Here ya go,your wish is my command!!!

kathi

Love that agave!

Kathi- in your 5th picture. is that "darley sunshine" growing next to the string of buttons?

Kathi- What are the red leafed plants growing behind your ghost plants? the leaves look like crassula ovate except red.

I went to smog my car today and saw this area close to the business. The picture doesn't do justice how beautiful this area is. It is on Convoy St.

Neil ,you will find that i am one of those that doesn't know all the names to my succulents,now annuals and perrinials i can name,but succulents,too many of them look alike and i kinda gave up on remembering their proper names.I grow them for my own pleasure and i do share them with friends etc.

In the first set of pictures i have some seeds from that plant #5,if anyone wants some.I've never grown it from seed,but i couldn't let them just fall to the ground and blow away either.LOL

Neil the picture you're referring to is it #7 in the first set of pictures??

@kathi, how easy or difficult is it to grow succulents from seeds? I got no experience with seeds

Kathi- This is the plant I wanted and ID on. Thanks

Tony- Bummer on the Agricultural limitations on exportation.

Great Job on the composition with the new Semps and kiwis.

Did you happen to catch the label/name for the semps?

Semp calcareum

My stuff... Started less than a year ago.

Thanks for the ID Tony- Yours look way better than mine.

Somewhere in Linda Vista

Balboa park

A home in the neighborhood

Another home

Neil,sorry i don't know the name of those red leaved plants.My sons gf gave me that plant 2 years ago for mothers day,and it has several different succulents on it,there's also an orangy one on it that i like.

Joe you're off to a very good start,quite a few nice ones you have there.Be careful though,they are so addicting.

Hope you guys in san diego are getting this rain like we are up here in Oceanside.I'm loving it!!

Kathi

Kathi, good to know you're another San Diegan. I thought I was all alone for a while.

Out here in East County we just started getting some rain in the afternoon. Regarding growing succulents from seeds, have you had any success?

Joe i never tried succulents from seed.I did send some seed for a stapelia to one of the guys on here last year,and last i heard he was having success with them.

Kathi

Loved flora grubb! did you find it a little pricey? I did compared to san diego prices

It was more pricey but I couldn't help myself. Haha