Succulents

Love the new additions to your Collection ,Hywel,especially the last one,it's a beauty. :o) x

What a lovely collection
Marjorie

Gosh, Hywel, youve got a trolley load of desirable succulents, lovely selection.

wow, what a lovely collection. They all look so healthy too.

lovely plants hywel . I also like Succulents, cacti

How lovely all those for your new greenhouse. The aeoniums are ones I've not seen before, I do like their pink edges.
I do have the black one, which has heads like dinner plates! And a bright green one which has grown like a shrub. I remember in Tasmania, the green type were growing right over the cliff edge down.to the beach, with the bright yellow cones of flowers. All happy, even.though they would get salt spray regularly..

A fabulous collection Hywel, I like the pink edges on the Aeoniums, that last one of the cactus is spectacular, I've never seen that one before... Added to Favorites...

Thanks for everyone's comments :)

Even though I am not into succulents Hywel, and am not surprised you couldn't resist them, I must admit that they are all lovely!

I’m not surprised also, that they all went into your basket. I didn’t know there were so many such colourful succulents.I love all of them & your cactus is a wow, flowers & lovely berries, can’t beat that. Thanks for showing them to us. Your greenhouse will soon be full up!

Thank you all :)

Lovely to see so many different succulents, Hywel! I had no idea either there were so many colours! I've never grown them myself but seeing so many here makes me want to give them a go!!! 😀

Some succulents might do well on your balcony Balcony :)
It seems to get a lot of sun, and they don't need much attention.

Yes, Hywel, our balcony does get a lot of sun - all that's going from about 11am till the sun sets, whatever the time of the year.

In the summertime it can get incredibly hot with the midday sun heating up the balcony very much. Of course at this time of the year the sun is very low in the sky & doesn't have as much time to heat up the balcony but even so it is pleasantly warm if the wind is not blowing a lot.

This morning I was out on the balcony no more than about 10 minutes yet with a cold NW wind blowing I was unable to be out there for longer! My left foot especially was numb by the time I got back inside!

What a wonderful selection….. can I ask where you bought these new succulents…was it surreal succulents by any chance?

It has become cold here too Balcony ...

Dottydaisy, I got them from Coastal nurseries, they were quite expensive but I thought I'd spoil myself.

And why not? they really are beautiful….. was that mail order Hywel?

Yes, I chose them from their website. I fancied more than that but decided on just those in the end. They were very expensive.

I hope you haven't had the -5C/-7C that we have had here on several nights this week, Hywel. Your succulents, especially the new ones, probably wouldn't like it at all. Hope you have managed to keep them safe.

I've bubble wrapped my aeoniums and put them under the staging in the greenhouse. It's where they go every year but I am bothered now it may just be too cold for them..:(

Thank you both,

My succulents and cacti are all right Balcony, I've timed a heater to come on for an hour three times during the nights, and the greenhouse has walls on two sides, so it's a bit sheltered.

It is very cold here too Janey, I hope the bubble wrap is enough to keep your Aeoniums safe.

Good to hear about the heater, Hywel! Your plants will be safe then the rest of the winter!

I hope so :)

I got rid of all my frosted plants today - the majority of my plants! 😢 Next year will mean having a new start!

:(

Though I've lost so many plants I still have replacement plants on the kitchen windowsill as well as on our bedroom windowsill. Some plants also survived in the mini-greenhouse on the balcony so fortunately not all is lost but I shall have to propagate some cutting from them as the plants inside the flat are several years old, particularly in the bedroom window.

I will not know what I'm propagating till they begin to flower as the majority I have no idea what colour they are- not that it's all that important but one of the Pelargoniums was a particular deep pink with white blotches called 'Mandarin' & I have no idea if I still have a plant of it or whether they all died frosted. 🤷‍♂️

I'm glad you haven't lost everything and hope there's a cutting of 'Mandarin' there somewhere for you.

Thanks very much, Hywel! 👍 😀