Flowering Succulents - Echeverias

I always thought Echeverias were a bit boring but some of these are great! Favourites are the red edged one and the setosa minor. Thanks for broadening my horizons!

Yes I like Echeveria pulidonis. It's such a "neat", attractive plant. Is it used for indoor air purification, or am I thinking of another plant? Some are good to keep next to a desk-top PC.

Do you keep them in a greenhouse over the Winter, Hywel?

wonderful plants and great photos Hywel.
I really do like your blogs :o)

Thank you all :)

I think the plant you mean is Aloe vera Eirlys.
In the winter I keep my succulents in a sheltered glazed area outside the back door.

Quite a collection you have there Hwel. Love that Echeveria pulidonis.

No, my husband reminded me it was the Spider Plant. I do have Aloe Vera in the kitchen and it thrives on a Northern window.

Goggled Air Purifying Plants and found the following list:

•Garden Chrysanthemum.
. In the NASA research, this plant was an air-purifying champion, removing ammonia, benzene, formaldehyde, and xylene from indoor air. ...
•Spider Plant.
•Dracaena.
•Ficus/Weeping Fig. .
•Peace Lily. .
•Boston Fern. .
•Snake Plant/Mother-in-Law's Tongue. ..
•Bamboo Palm.

Also said they were impossible to kill!

Thanks for all your comments :)

Thanks for that list Eirlys :)

Wonderful blog Hywel, so many here that I don't have but that gives me something to look for, lol.. I put mine outside during the summer as well but they are back safely in the g'house now and some like yours are beginning to flower. One of my cacti in the dining room produced its first ever flower, had it donkeys years, would you believe it did it whilst I was away in the Lake District, I could have cried when I saw the dying stem, don't even know what colour it was..

Great blog, again, Hywel! Your photos are very good! I especially like the close ups of the flowers - they are so clear! You must have a very good camera!

Thanks for all your comments.

I remember you mentioned that cactus earlier Sue. How inconsiderate of it to flower while you were away ! Maybe it will do it again next year, when you are at home :)
I find that once they start to flower they keep doing it every year afterwards, if given the right conditions.

My camera is only a cheap one Balcony, and it will be 10 yrs old in the spring. It's a Kodak. For closeups I crop the photos.

Hywel it has lived in the same spot in my dining room window for years so apart from turning it on occasion I'm making sure it stays there, hoping it does now flower again.

Reminded me of a man I met at a Fuchsia Society Show.

He was putting a plant on a bench, said "And dont move it!
I know what you women are. Always moving things and dusting ! " Ha ha.

That's a good way of getting close ups, Hywel! ?

Try giving it a feed in the spring Sue ...

Thanks for all your comments :)

What lovely flowers! Succulents aren't things I grow (I don't have a greenhouse for winter) but there's a huge variety available, and many in the same genus look quite different from one another, they're an interesting class of plants. But I think they need sun, with one or two exceptions, and that's not easy indoors, well, not in summer in my flat anyway. That Echeveria runyoni is vaguely similar to Aeonium, apart from the flower.

That list Eirlys has given means I must have some of the cleanest air available in my sitting room, the only one I haven't got is Boston Fern, but I'm curious as to what 'bamboo palm' is...

Well how funny, I just checked on bamboo palm, its apparently Areca palm, and I've got a small one of those too!

WOW! Bamboo, you must live in the most healthy of environments then!!! ??

Thanks Bamboo, they do need some sun but not too much direct sunshine on a hot afternoon.

I have several house plants too. I have Ficus benjamina and I think it's one that clears toxins, or gas or something ...

There's a Ficus on the list!!

Yes, I know :)

Beautiful, Hywel! I really like that E. setosa minor: it looks like me after a long, razor-free weekend! :)
Bamboo, what I know as Bamboo Palm is either Chamaedorea erumpens or C. seifrizii.

Nice to see Tug back again !

Thank you all :)

I look like that sometimes too Tugbrethil :)

Thanks for this information Hywel, as you know we grow a lot of succulents, the Echeveria are a lovely family, often mistaken for Aeoniums, in fact I find them quite confusing at times! great photos btw...

Thank you :)

Tugbrethil: when I googled Bamboo Palm, it offered me Areca... no idea which plant NASA means then...

Yeah, with common names it's hard to tell. With Eirlys' list, though , it seemed like the NASA reference only applied to the Chrysanthemum.
Huh! I googled it too, and that big sidebar at the top also showed Areca Palm, but didn't list "Bamboo Palm" as one of the common names. A glitch in the system, I guess!

Lovely collection you have there Hywel such pretty coloured flowers to.

Thank you all :)

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You have wonderful plants with beautiful flowers. I feel like I have been to their home countries to see them there because of your descriptions. Smashing blog again. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you :)