Kalanchoe blossfeldiana - Red

Great to see these lovely plants outside of the house! Here in the UK we can't grow them outside - at least not outside till the end of May & then they have to come back in under cover in October because the first frosts have a habit of appearing towards the middle of the month.

They are quite common as houseplants here & we have had a few over the years, in fact I gave our son a white one for Christmas last year!

Thanks. It's a very common ground cover here. So many color varieties are available. Pink, red, yellow, orange and white are the most common colors. There's some multi-color and double varieties available, also.

Yes, we see them all here but only as houseplants. We've also had a couple of doubles over the years as well.

Yes, it's a very easy plant to grow. Just stick them into the ground and water once every two weeks. It's a very drought tolerant plant.

Just today I was looking at some photos of them from 2015 when we had a double rose one.

The white one I gave my son just before Christmas 2016 is still doing just fine. I saw it in his garden just last week. I told him it's not frost tolerant & should move it back inside if any night we are forecast frost. We get an occasional frost in the first week of May some years - it's caught many an allotment grower out with their spuds & runner beans!

I think this plant will tolerate a very light frost for a short period of time, without damage. I don't get frost where I live in San Diego; however, when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area I used to get the occasional light frost in winter and this plant tolerated it well.