Isn't it nice when you come home from work and you have parcels of newly arrived plant goodies to open up?
Have to say they were all well packaged, much to my delight!
It may have turned rather unseasonably chilly here at the moment but it hasn't stopped me from planning for the garden and looking out for new plants that's for sure. In fact by going on a more indoor mode means it's more conducive to go online shopping...
Saying that I have been over the past few weeks, even before the dip in temperatures thinking about getting more succulents. However, instead of buying several individual types like what I used to do to 'tick the box', this time I restricted it to the ones that I really like but bought multiples of the same plant or group of plants instead.
By having several of the same thing I feel I can be even more creative with the way I'll be able to present them.
Echeveria purpusorum
They look so cute in their tiny pots the size of shot glasses
Echeverias are the bulk of my recent acquisitions but there's only actually a few of them that I really, really like and that's what I went for. Echeveria purpusorum were on the top of my list so I bought four of them. I find the Echeveria agavoides group very attractive and they do well in pots in our garden so I got a few more of those.
Echeveria agavoides 'Lipstick'
Echeveria agavoides 'Romeo'
Echeveria agavoides (Pink Leaf Form)
They will keep our only pot of Echeveria agavoides company
An Aloe made it on my recent purchases and that is Aloe suprafoliata. The leaves are distichous when young but will eventually spiral as it matures. They look so unusual and attractive and one would not have been enough, so I got four instead.
Aloe suprafoliata
A couple of individual/lone plants did make it with the lot which are Agave 'Mateo' and Echeveria 'Giant Blue'. With the Agave it is a cross and one of the parents is Agave bracteosa, my favorite agave which made me more drawn to the plant. With Echeverias I tend to shy away with frilly pink ones. This one is looking frilly and pink at the moment but I have high hopes it will eventually become less frilly and more blue in time as its name suggests.
Agave 'Mateo'
Agave 'Giant Blue'
When I ordered these plants initially I was aiming to sort them out for display this year. Now I'm pondering whether to just re-pot and nurture them under glass and aim for displaying them out next year instead.I have nice new plants, now I'll need nice new pots for them too. And this time I think plain terracotta just won't do...
Mark :-)
