Overrun with succulents... some well loved, some rampant, some struggling, some dead. Lots of pretties but they get neglected. Melbourne, AU (= USDA Zone 10a, perfect succulent climate, frosts rare & usually mild the last couple decades)

Jan 5, 2018 6:21 AM

skathir

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Amazing geometry and the leaves are velvety!

Can't get enough of pearl necklace. Love senecios.

Is that ghost plant in the foreground??

Finally got a cocoon plant that isn't dying.

This pot just happened. And this sedum self seeds everywhere (found it in a boggy area on the nature strip down the road).

Some kind of Hoya, suddenly flowered today. It kind of counts as a succulent?

Variegated jade.

This is what much of the garden looks like now, it needs a good hard weeding.

Flowering time.

Is this Blue Curls? It was one of the few that was here when we moved in.

Rediscovered this in the nasturtiums today, needs relocating. Peperomia?

Tom thumb, right?

Check out the tiny baby Agave victoria-reginae dwarfed by everything else. I gave it to my housemate for her retirement plan (just kidding, 50 years of growth is still only about $1000).

Killed some lithops already but these all need to go in a pot together.

Succulents into the shady jungle zone, some not doing so well.

Baby's toes

Got sunburnt, I learnt you need to work up to all-day sun.

Recent proplifted babies. Hope I don't kill these ones.

Someone chucked this out in hard rubbish by the side of the road, would you believe it?! Pot had a chip out of it.

Potted this one up recently, I think it's going to be a winner. I don't always have luck combining things.

Needs a repot STAT.

Too many pots OMG. I let nature select out the finicky ones.

Sempervivum oddity doing odd things.

Sad neglected peperomia but at least it flowered?

Missed a photo of the brief time it flowered... damn.

Got sunburnt/bleached, put it out in full sun too quickly :(

I need to move in a year, possibly to a flat. I don't know what I'm going to do.

This pot just happened like most of them, just stuck bits and pieces in and voila.

I learnt Red Pagoda does NOT need more than the bare minimum of soil, water or fertiliser... oh dear.

Weedy self-seeded sedum.

I used to obsessively label all my pots with the exact variety and now idgaf. This is probably a healthy progression.

Is this Sedum adolphii?

Zwartkop, probably.

I am addicted to plants.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I love everything here and I'm so jealous of your zone. I see a very nice sago palm there in the background too.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

wow I forgot I posted this

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

wow I really need to repot some of these, it's been seven years already.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

wow I forgot I posted this again

3 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I reckon I've killed about half of these through sheer neglect 6 years on. Who knew you had to water succulents. Especially as I've now added bromeliads, palms, orchids, drought-hardy ferns and all kinds of aroids to the mix and there's just a LOT to look after, all sprawling out of pots, especially as I keep having to move rentals cos the shit heaps get pulled down. It's survival of the fittest in my garden, my Nan would be proud.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

This succs

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

no u succs

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh. Sorry

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Omg if you need a home for any babies. But seriously, you could make money selling them. I love succulents

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Are you in Melbourne?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, I'm in Michigan :( so all mine live inside under a grow light! Execpt the hen and chicks

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ah nvm, I'll give some away one day! Good luck, I've never used grow lights, it would be a totally different ball game.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Seems to work okay. My guest also get window light, but on days with what seems like a few hours of sunlight, I turn them on

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0