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lindg5a
5 years agoBeautiful! I love them but have trouble growing them. My A. Lilypad is the only one that has done well for me. It's starting to bloom for the first time.
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All of these are in San Diego. I've already posted photos of my own in the "Blooms" threads.
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5 years agoMy favourite four - three of them I used to grow, and those plants and their progeny are still in San Diego. In no particular order (all pics taken from the Web):
The most beautiful, IMO, especially out of flower - Aeonium (arboreum v.) rubrolineatum. The heads would, in the summer of their hibernation, get tightened up into purple discs about 3" wide.
___________________________________________________________________________Aeonium smithii, the most tempermental for me - ANY summer water (unlike the others, which tolerated it) would cause the death knell for this plant. I don't know if you can extrapolate that it comes from the driest of the Canary Islands from that....I'll have to look into it.
___________________________________________________________________________Aeonium lindleyii - the ethnobotanical prophylactic for Euphorbia sap burns:
___________________________________________________________________________And I'm afraid I'm a little desensitized to yellow Aeonium flowers, having seen so many every year for nearly twenty years. They're pretty, but Aeonium nobilie's flowers are prettier. Of course, that spells the eventual death of the flowering head,.
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Matt z5b - Greenhouse 10a
5 years agoCan't wait to get these back outside next month.
Kiwi
I think this is an aeonium
Unknown from an Oakland sidewalk
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Crenda 10A SW FL
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoOoooh! I like Mardi Gras! That's a dandy, SLD.
I found out the hard way that Aeoniums do not like my summers. I had removed these from the sun, but the one on the left did not like the heat and humidity. The leaves fell off and it never recovered.
So I have found they will survive if I bring them inside for the summer. The above picture is when they were headed out for the winter. And this is how nicely the plant on the right colored up. The leaves flattened out, too.
Here's another view showing a couple of newer heads.
I think I'll keep my eye out for another Aeonium or two!
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5 years agoThank you everyone. I’m enjoying the photos. Mardi Gras is gorgeous!
Last summer I stuck some cuttings in the center of this rotting stump. They seem to be doing OK. The green Aeonium is front and center.
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5 years agoCrenda 10A SW FL
5 years agosultry_jasmine_nights - what a name! That sure conjures up a pleasant image!
I don't know if you get the horrible humidity that most of Florida enjoys during the rainy summers, but I'm sure you get enough. I'm in Cape Coral on the Gulf. We rarely get in the 100s, but high 90s is the norm. And not as much breeze as some areas get, either. I have been known to crank up the ceiling fans on the lanai to help with air circulation for my plants.
I watch the temperature and bring my Aeoniums inside when it is consistently in the high 80s - or if the rains start. These 2 plants were moved out of the sun and onto the lanai. It was still too hot and humid.
Eventually all the leaves fell off and neither plant recovered. Now I bring them inside. I have large windows across the back of my house - the south side. So my Aeoniums can get good sunlight (as good as the newer efficient windows will allow) while inside. So I do water mine, but not often. Probably once, maybe twice a month. The AC will dry them out.I would try one plant on the porch and see how it goes. Watch it like a hawk and get it out of the humidity and heat as soon as things look iffy - perhaps in mid-June, but most likely by July. Aeoniums are NOT easy to grow in Florida, and neither are Echeveria, but with a few tricks we can do it.
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Karen S. (7b, NYC)
5 years agoBeautiful pix everybody, Thanks for a lovely show, I especially the variety of colors. I'm partial to variegates, so those green & white variegates really speak to me. Found one in Manhattan the other night, literally on the sidewalk among other C&S, just waiting for me.
Small but lovely, my little charmer.
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5 years agoaloebot
5 years agoHere are a couple more 'now and thens'.
This one makes a nice mound. It is not as leggy as many others get. The green is now post rain.
The difference is not as dramatic on this large headed variety. In late spring it is more grey and the red is more pronounced.
atropurpureum.
atro. v. swartzkopf.
This one is a little harder for me to root than most.
I don't know the name.
haworthioides.
I like this one in both seasons. Maybe I like the red better because I have other plants that get dark.
I need to get this one in the ground to see if it will grow a little stronger.
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5 years agoAll very nice! Did not think I would need to ever dive into the aeonium space till this thread came up, thanks guys!!!
Not much to show right now besides a very green A kiwi, an A haworthii (maybe, not sure) and A tabuliforme. Grown from seeds and that should take off soon for some.
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