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Cycad envy
So I have just got back from a work trip to Uganda and I am now thinking my cycad flush is not that impressive.Everywhere you looked there were lovely cycads.Sadly there were not a lot of interesting...
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Potting up the white echeverias
There comes a time in the year it can be put off no longer. The other plants have been potted on, the other garden jobs have been finished, nothing left to do but face the white plants. This year is...
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Aloe polyphyla: update 1
So the aloe polyphylla has been growing nicely over the last few weeks.The big question has always been what to do with the new heads: leave them all attached or risk removing them. Let's face it a...
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Some potted things
The succulent rockeries have greatly reduced the number of plants in pots (down from over 400), but there are still one or two that can't be planted. I have been slowly building a set of nicer pots and...
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Echeveria agavoides forms
The plan at the start of the summer, was to bring my echeveria agavoides forms together into a standard plant pot for display. Finally after 3 months of failed pot deliveries, don't get me started,...
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Wednesday Vignette August 1, 2018
I've mainly been showing the progress of the small damaged aloe polyphylla lately. The big one look pretty good in the evening sun.
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Is this finally the year of the mangave
So manfredas and mangaves, what is not to like; the colour of the manfredas and the structure of agaves combined. It is strange that the plants available in the UK have not really changed in years. We...
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Wednesday Vignette
Finally got around to planting up my Tonka truck. I went back and forth over which plant to use; somethin structural, something colourful, something that will take over. In the end I settled on...
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Aloe arborscens variegata
For the last year I thought I had two forms of this plant, a yellow and a white variegated form. The yellow form has an amazing structure. The colour really stands out.Then the white form, is slightly...
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The planted agaves
After my potted post on some of the potted agaves (here) and having seen the agave report on the blog Piece of Eden (you can read it here) I thought it was time for one on the planted agaves in various...
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The gardens being overrun
Anyone who grows succulents knows that many are easy to propogate and you can quickly go from a single plant to a clump. With many plants we expect that and make the most of it. The stream of echeveria...
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Aloe polyphylla: update 2
So it has been a month since the last aloe polyphylla update. A few heads have been removed to try and root. This seems to be a slow process, time will tell what happens to them. The remaining heads...
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Can finally cross one off the wish list
We all have those elusive plants, that torment you from a far. One of mine, was agave titanota black and blue. Always loved the various titanota forms (true and false). A blue form, with very dark...
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Close but not quite there
I often have to travel to Africa for work, which should be perfect for the plant addiction. Sadly between the location and pressures on time it never quite gives the tourist or plant opportunities. The...
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Plants are waking up
It's that time of year again, alternating between the joy of plants waking up and the fear of them rotting. The UK has had a very mild winter so hopefully this will reduce the amount of end of winter...
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Shifting from winter to summer
This weekend was another sunny one, so time to start unpacking the greenhouse and uncovering the succulent rockery. It is a little earlier than I usually do this and still a little risky, but with no...
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Wheeling out the first pots
To free up some space int eh greenhouse, or more correctly to move the pots that were on the floor stoping access, the first pots have been moved out. Nothing sensitive at the moment, so it ia mainly...
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Another ceramic pot experiment
I am sure many of us are constantly on the look out for unusal plant pots for our succulents. Back in January, just happened to pop into a shop and found this one.It really reminded me of a clump of...
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It's back to winter and shopping
The last post was all about things warming up and starting to get the plants out of the greenhouse. Then this week it is back to winter again and all the plants are back inside again. Such is the joy...
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Planning changes to the succulent rockery
The cold continues, so time to think about the planned changes to the main rockery. It has filled out so much over the last year.So some changes needed over the summer. First a few of these plants...
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