I have taken a new-found interest in succulents, for some reason,
after pretty much ignoring them my whole life.
I've been transplanting some because I find they
outgrow their containers before I know it!
This is the container into which I transplanted today.
I got it last week at Tractor Supply, and I love it.
I really know how to style pictures, don't I?
My son Jim drilled two holes in the bottom, because, in fact, it is not really a
planter per se, but a "holder" for plant pots.
Because I was planting succulents, I was not too worried about leakage... but I did do this:
I covered the hole with part of this morning's Kansas City Star.
Here is what I have been using for my succulents.
Look at the roots when I pulled the plants out!
Here they are after re-potting... you can't see from this picture,
but there are baby aloe plants all along that center stem. I am going
to end up repotting this one again, I believe!
Then, I took the empty aloe pot, and transplanted this plant into it
(fresh dirt) as soon as it was empty. The leaves of this came off... at least, many did... and I stuck
them down into the dirt, and believe I will get a bunch of little plants off it.
Hope my friends are all wanting some succulents!
I just realized I forgot to take a picture of the finished product.
Oh, well.
I am loving growing these... and am going to run out of space soon!
Do any of you grow succulents?
Hari OM
ReplyDeleteI adore succulents and cacti and used to grow a great many varieties... strange thing is that this very day I have been potting up cuttings! Not of succs - they all go left behind in OZ. Here I had only the one umbrella tree, which had actually been mind from way back before I emigrated down under; which makes that core stem close to 40 years old. Sisters have had cuttings off it since then. I reclaimed the pot from the father and have had it for nearly three years, pretty much untouched apart from a water once a month. Today it got two branches take off it for rooting and refreshed for itself. Here's hopin'!!! Were we neighbours, I'd be taking a few of those littlies off your hands &*> YAM xx
So pretty. Mom loves succulents
ReplyDeleteLily & Edward
MOM has a BUNCH of the Succulents... OUTDOORS ONLY. YOURS are Grrrrrreat.
ReplyDeleteI started some last year, they quickly out grew the pot. I had them all together, now they need their individual homes.
ReplyDeleteFrom the looks of the root, I'd say it was TIME for a replant! - lol
ReplyDeleteMy aloe grows so fast that I end up planting it outside in the summer. It dies once the cold hits but I have exhausted friends and family to take any more. I have 6 pots inside that always need thinning out. It is the one plant I can not kill!
ReplyDeleteLove that container. Will have to see if our Tractor has one.
ReplyDeleteYes, I grow a few Hen and Chicks. Have some other ones in a fairy garden. I think some of them made it thru the winter. Not that we had much of one. But, I didn't bring them inside.
My husband came home yesterday and told me about a huge container of succulents that was on sale at Lowes yesterday, or maybe it was HD. Anyway, he just told me about it, did not get it for Pete's sake. I doubt it will be there today.
ReplyDeleteI've never grown them but want to. Yours is going to be so pretty, and can come indoors next fall, right? I have an empty old bird bath outside and thought about planting them in that as our birds don't need water, with the pond right next door. Only I wouldn't be able to bring in a large birdbath next fall. Would they overwinter, I wonder?
I like succulents, but I don't seem to have much luck with them! Crazy, I know, because I hear they're supposed to be easy!
ReplyDeleteLove the planter you are using. I like succulents, they do so well pretty much leaving them alone. I am great with plants that survive on their own...haha
ReplyDeleteLooks great. I had a couple of them last year but they did
ReplyDeletenot make it.
M : )
Right now we aren't growing anything butt mom says she's growing older.
ReplyDeleteYour Pals,
Murphy & Stanley