More flowering succulents.

Nice collection Hywel. I love the Kalanchoes and the little "rabbit" flower. Do you have to bring them all in for the winter? They look like they need a bit of warmth which we are very much lacking today. It was minus 2 at 7.30 this morning. Winter has really arrived!

Hi Chris, they spend the winter in a glazed shelter outside the back door. It doesn't fall below freezing in there although it does get very cold, but they're fine :)

It was frosty here this morning too, our first very frosty day this winter. I hope it doesn't last. I don't 'do' cold weather lol

My word you have some beauties there! What interesting shapes they are, especially that strange little Crassula rupestrise. I had a Kalanchoe once that had little plantlets but it was a different variety from yours.

I love your blogs always so interesting and with some wonderful and unusual plants. thanks for sharing.

Thank you all for reading my blog :)

I also have that Kalanchoe you mention Steragram, it's called Kalanchoe tubiflora and has similar flowers ...

Nice that you find my blogs interesting Seaburngirl.

What a collection you have Hywel, you've had most many years I guess.

Thank you dawn :) Yes some of them are quite old.

It's really great to see so many succulents with their tiny flowers, Hywel! ?? We don't often get the chance to see so many different plants with close ups of their flowers, so thanks for sharing your photos with us.

Many, many years ago I had one of those Kalanchoes with the tiny plantlets along the borders of its leaves & it used to fascinate our children when they were small!

I have a small plant of Aloe aristata in our kitchen window but I didn't know its "surname" until I saw your photo!

Thank you Balcony. The little Kalanchoe plantlets often fall into other nearby pots and tend to grow very fast so I have to pull them out before they get too big.
I'm pleased to have told you the Aloe's surname :)

Amazing, odd and wonderful.

Thanks Linda :)

The Aloe came from our church. It was an offset from a much bigger plant that has flowered on several occasions.

The plant almost died a few years ago but I managed to rescue it & this year it has made 3 offsets as well as flowered. ?

That's good :) Mine grows very slowly but flowers every year.

Good to see someone has some colour in the garden. Ours looks so bleak at the moment.

Echo Balcony's comment: great to see close-ups.

Thanks Eirlys. There's no colour in my garden these days. The plants in this blog are in a Perspex shelter, and the flowers appeared back in the summer. They're dormant now.

All looking good Hywel

are they all kept frost free ? I darnt start collecting any as knwing me I will end up with a collection lol
Crassula rupestris looks very nice ....

Gg

Yes Gg they're in a perspex shelter at the back of the house, and more in another shelter by the side of the garage :)
I have loads of them ! (two more blogs on the way)
Would you like some cuttings ?

Dont tempt me lol

Gg

;) lol

Thanks for reminding me, there were a couple on here that you have now named for me...so thanks for that....I will look out for the Euphorbia milii..........I like the look of that one.....we have lost many to winter wet and the VWs!!

I'm pleased to have identified some plants for you.

I got Euphorbia milii in Lidl :) lol

Did you?.....my goodness!

Sometimes they have nice plants.

Hywel - you are bad! I'm getting seriously hooked on succulents and you just feed me more must haves!!

I'm not sure that is Kalanchoe daigremontiana. The cladodes should be much more squared off at the back. To me it looks like Kalanchoe x houghtonii. Did I send you some of the little plantlets a few years ago? Incidently, the plantlets seem to be much hardier than mature plants.

Kalanchoe pumila is a beauty too as is Euphorbia milii.

Congrats on getting Aloe aristata to bloom. Mine died of "frost poisoning" before it bloomed.

Thank you. You may be right about the K diagremontiana. You did send me some plantlets.

I can send you some cuttings of A. aristata and K. pumila if you want them, in the spring :)
The A. aristata blooms every year.

I got the E. milii in Lidl :D I've never tried cuttings of it. I'm always afraid of taking Euphorbia cuttings incase they bleed to death !

A swap would be good. I can send you some K. diagremontiana plantlets and other succulent cuttings.

That's a good idea. We can arrange it in the new year.

I'll leave it to you to remember. If we rely on my memory the swap will never happen!!!!!!!!!

I forget everything except when it means I can get more plants :)