Where'd you go shopping? My trips consist of Lowe's and Home Depot.

Local nursery. Don't you have any? I also got a nice plant at Walmart a couple months ago.

No... Not any (edit: more likely "many") nurseries around here. We don't have succulents at Walmart, either. Of course, I would imagine succulent nurseries are a lot more plentiful in warmer regions (*cough* 10a :)

LOL.......probably! I posted elsewhere that our humidity is 15% today. Yours is probably "slightly" higher!

Oh definitely... It is raining right now if you would believe it! I really wonder how long the average life of a succulent is here at our Home Depot (a short life is NOT a bad thing; there are always new plants to choose from lol)...

socks

You could grow that kalanchoe in ground to be quite a big plant. I have one, it is too tall for container, and I recently cut off one branch (it only has 2). I left it callus & it grew roots pretty fast, it is potted now. The stem is growing few shoots, I am quite happy about that. I like the color it has in good sun.

I was thinking of putting it in the ground! the tag says sun to part shade, so I'm interpreting that to mean it might not like the all day summer sun and heat in So calif. I'll have to think about where it could go. Thanks

Edited to add--I thought the leaves looked backwards. Leaves can be wooly on the back, shiny on the "right" side, but not for this plant. I read on a site that it's called Copper Spoons.

Only one new plant for me. =) Haworthia Tyou Ohgata Green Form:

Gibbdeum heathii and a Agroderma pearsonii that I'll end up potting into the one that I already have.

Ewwmayo, will yours be OK? Couple leaves don't look so good!

The roots were a mushy mess. Sigh, nothing left. Rerooting from scratch now but it should be enough leaves to do it. I got this last weekend and should have pulled it out then instead of today.

Yes, K. orgyalis, common names Copper spoons, Cinnamon bear...Slightly fuzzy leaves turn copper on top in sunlight - that's where I keep it, full sun but am not in SoCal:

Ohhhh.....beautiful, lovely color! I'm glad I got it (told myself I was "just looking" but oh well). I might keep it in a pot until it gets bigger as it was only in a 2" pot and could get stepped on if in the ground now.

After seeing how easily it roots, I wish I pruned mine much earlier - I didn't want to loose it. But yours is bit small yet - that's what mine was when I got it. It grew into approx. 19" tall plant in 4years; I think it would be bigger or maybe branching if in ground. Here are the shoots growing from the be-headed stem:

Rina,

Individual leaves of this plant will also root...

Beth

I wanted branches rather than new plants, but was hesitant to prune :)

Socks- I can verify K. orgyalis loves full sun in Southern California.

Love your Red Tips, I saw one in another group that was stunning. I want one. I am holding out at my monthly cactus club meeting, that's were my best succulent deals are.

Very nice graptos. I've been on the fence about echevarias for years now---they tend to be large plants, don't they? My sister grows them and hers are nearly all the size of cabbages on steroids!

Yeah, I went on an early Christmas shopping for myself and I got my plant last Friday already oozing with rot. Needless to say, my relationship with that seller is over.

Pagan

Oh, I just remembered three others I got.

This one is looking ok.

On the zebra haworthia below, is it normal to have brown tips?

Lastly, this one was a rescue. Soil had bug eggs in it and plant all beat-up, so clipped off the plant and treat as a cutting. It seems to be doing ok even tho it looks rough.

I'm afraid I ended up buying again as well.... hubby wanted to get some bird feeders from the garden centre, so.....

Crassula marginalis:

A breathtaking Conophytum (haven't figured out yet which one it is):

I lost one of my Crassula Buddha's Temple last week. I couldn't resist getting this replacement with all the pups:

And 4 more Euphorbia obesa, just because they were so tiny and cute, and had such lovely colour variety:

All were repotted today, as some of the above pots also felt like bricks... (what's wrong with these people).

Pagan - For Echeveria it really depends on the species. I have only kept one for now and am trying to contain it to its pot.

Even with my Graptoveria cuttings, I'm not sure what to do when they get bigger. Probably let them grow until next fall and then prune back to keep small so they fit easily under my lights.

Socks - I do like the fine pattern on the Haworthia attenuata var radula. For attenuata, brown leaf tips may indicate under watering. I figure you're going to repot anyway so that will solve itself later.

Conny - Nice finds! That's quite the garden center you have other there. You would never find such nice plants over there at one. =)

That looks like a huge cluster of 20+ Pleiospilos nelii 'Royal Flush' heads to me. Are Crassula 'Buddha's Temple' very common over there? I think a lot of collections in North America are dying to get their hands one one, haha.

Alma, I could kiss you!

1) for ID-ing the Pleiospilos for me (strange the label said Conophytum, no wonder I couldn't find which variety it was).

2) for now I know how to properly care for what has instantly become an absolute favourite in my collection. It seems it will be easier than the care a Conophytum requires.

I'm glad I repotted it today (split it in 2, so I can see which cares works best) as the medium was soaken wet.

The garden centre we went to yesterday is quite something and well worth the 100km drive from our home. For starters it's the biggest one in the Netherlands (can easily spend 3-4 hours in there), it's very reasonably priced, and every time we go there they seem to have something special that I've never seen before and just have to have. The funny thing is I never see anybody else in the succulent department :-)

I think I might try and take another drive up there during the week to see if they have any of these Pleiospilos left (they had about 10 of them).

As for the Crassula Buddha's Temple: I wouldn't say they are very common, but then not difficult to get either. Every C&S show has them for sale, and the garden centre yesterday had about 40.

Kevin, my apologies! Your alias only slightly resembles that of Alma who I know from the adenium forum, and somehow that stuck.

Echeveria Fleur Blanc

Hawarthia Cooperi

Got these at my local BBS yesterday! I'm hoping to see the two echeverias put on some color.

Wonderful, Patrick!

What's a BBS around here?

Conny, where, oh, where is that garden centre? Do you mind letting me know? I think I must put that on my 'must visit' list...

I went to Home Depot for supplies to seal my basement window and also came home with this little guy

I'm not supposed to be buying new plants hehe, but since it was only the second time I've found gasteria locally (and didn't buy the first one) - I went ahead and overpaid for it in this shoe planter. I'm going to drill a drain hole in it and have my daughter paint it like a Converse for one of her succulents :D

Conny - No problem. =)

Patrick - Nice big H. cooperi and mirabilis.

Bunkfree - Gasteria 'Little Warty'. They clump up pretty nicely. Mine's really taken over and I think I'll be giving a whole bunch away in the spring.

Bunkfree, interestingly I also recently bought a Little Warty, but from Canadian Tire. It was planted in a kind of dark, sandy mix. Too fine to keep it in, but it kind of fell away from the roots. A great improvement on the usual clingy peat. If the growers cannot go to a proper gritty mix, I wish they would go to the sand. It makes it possible to transplant without damaging the roots. There was no indication which grower it came from. Just "grown in Canada".

Gdinie, I think I have good news for you, assuming you'll be flying into/from Amsterdam airport. The garden centre in question is only a few kilometres from the airport!

Tuincentrum Het Oosten, Aalsmeerderweg 393, Aalsmeer.

If you'd like more addresses for C&S do let me know!

Thank you! I can combine that with a visit to my brother. I am getting more and more excited.

Just to warn you there may be no pleiospilos nelii royal flush left when you get there: I took a few hours off work today and got myself another 3 pots :-)

Grin. No problem, I have P. nelii, though not the Royal Flush, and not such a gorgeous pot full. Just leave me a Buddah's Temple ;-).

If you like I can get you one for when you're here.

I will send you PM.

Those P. Nelii are amazing. Sadly, I lost mine seemingly overnight - went from fine to a pile of rot in just hours. :(

Ouch, that would break my heart Leslie. Luckily I have 5 pots now, and can play with their care somewhat, see if it makes a difference.

I'm forbidden of buying new ones until I get the hang of all my old plants. But Christmas is coming and I'll probably break that promise.... There's a Home Depot kind of place nearby with the prettiest Sedums (a kind with light green leaves, grows to fall around the pot in a curtain, it's beautiful).

But my last two acquisitions were disappointing, one rot when I wasn't quick enough to find a proper pot for it and I'm still fighting a bloody vicious infestation on the other.

Please do Gdinie, I'll happily go and get one (or more, lol) for you.

R, I'm forbidding myself of getting any more plants after each purchase, but then a week or so later.... there's always an excuse!

Didn't buy anything but did check the succulent section; everything sitting in water and prices were, IMO, ridiculous. From $9.99 to over $20 - can't justify that for size that used to be for sale around $5-7 (almost all in 4"pots). This was $10, and marked "rhipsalis"...

All other plants were labeled as "cactus miscellaneous" or "succulent miscellaneous".

This plant was with sanseverias - anyone knows what it is? It has teeth on the margins and few pups; I am guessing a bromeliad?:

Rina - It looks like a Sanseviera trifasciata hybrid of some sort? Never seen one with jagged leaf margins before.

Winter is such a terrible time for getting succulents here, I don't even bother looking once the fall hits. They are so etoliated, waterlogged, or generally just dying on the shelves. Maybe in the new year we can go to Crystal Star Orchids together or do a group order from Valley Succulents. That would probably result in some interesting/worthwhile additions to our collections. =)

I would go with a kind of bromeliad too. Cultivar of Cryptanthus bivittatus?