Succulents are ideal plants to nurture in an area that experiences low rainfall. They also do well in miniature indoor gardens, like these ones:
They can be grown in pots:
Some succulents are happy to trail over rocks or hang over a terrace wall:
Then there are aloes – my favourite – growing out in the garden and ready to provide beautiful flowers during the colder winter months:
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Wonderful colours and textures, you couldn’t ask for an easier plant to grow!
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I imagine yours spend the winters indoors.
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Yes, they do. Sempervivum and Sedum are hardy here, so those I have outdoors in my drought tolerant beds.
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You have a lovely variety of succulents, Anne. Our desert roses are in flower now.
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Their flowers are so beautiful!
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Interesting textures.
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This is one of the things I like about succulents. Their forms are very different too.
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Not ideal for our climate.
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They do prefer a lot of sunshine and not much rain.
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Such remarkable plants. How nice to enjoy flowering aloes in winter!
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The flowering aloes seen en masse in the country are a wonderful sight to behold: rich oranges and yellows attractive to bees, other insects as well as birds.
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Great photos! I really like succulents – mostly in the house. I have an aloe vera which is huge and about to topple over as I’ve taken so many leaves from it..oops!!
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I am happy to have my aloes growing outdoors 🙂
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We’re really lucky to live in a country so richly endowed with beautiful succulents that lend themselves to gardening as well!
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You are right: my succulent guide is a fat volume – so many to see!
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My late mom loved her various cactus gardens – she had two kitchen windowsill gardens for years until I brought home an “Old Man” cactus to replace hers that died and, despite segregating it in another room for a week or so, it had a mite and contaminated all of them. I felt so badly as she enjoyed those gardens.
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These mites can be destructive, as you found out. I am sorry to learn that they infected the other succulents too.
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She tried a potion of alcohol and Q-tips to get rid of the mites like the nursery recommended to no avail. Mites are bad … I have had them in the garden as well.
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