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20 favorite slightly ridiculous succulent pastimes

5/8/2017

 
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Don't pretend you don't waste an inordinate amount of time fawning over succulents. You know you do. You're probably every bit as much of a hapless succ-er as I am. Today I began wondering about how I can spend so much time thinking about succulents, and decided to catalog some of the more ridiculous succulent- and cacti-related ways in which I spend my not-actually-all-that-copious free time.  

  1. Studiously pretending offense when my wife says something like, "You spend more time on your plants than you do on your research!"
  2. Bidding early on an eBay plant I know I'll never afford, then getting an email three days later that says something like, "Tiger Eye variegated Japanese haworthia sold for $275.50 over your max bid."
  3. Watching Debra Lee Baldwin's videos. She is so mesmerizing!
  4. Taking a container garden apart and putting the plants from it into individual pots.
  5. Taking plants out of individual pots and putting them into a container garden.
  6. Organizing plants in my plastic flats by genus and species.
  7. Creating labels for plants that don't have them (I wish I did this more often).
  8. Shopping online on Mountain Crest Gardens or Jadepoint Succulents or Plant Delights or some other store I like and putting a bunch of stuff into my cart to see how much it would cost if I placed an order.
  9. Picking dead leaves off the bottoms of various plants, especially echeverias.
  10. Checking plants obsessively for babies, mealybug, etc.
  11. Leaf.  Propagation.  OMG.
  12. Freshening the top dressing. (Did I really just write that? Yes. Yes, I did.)
  13. Going to local nurseries to "see what's new" because you "never know."
  14. Flipping obsessively through Under the Spell of Succulents or Aloes and Agaves in Cultivation.
  15. Looking at the bottom of pots to see if any roots or babies are coming out of drainage holes, which would mean that I am basically forced to stop everything and repot immediately.
  16. Organizing pictures I have taken on various succulent outings and adventures.
  17. Fancifully planning visits to various parts of the world where succulents feature prominently (South Africa, anyone?).
  18. Instagram.
  19. Setting up alerts for phrases such as "crassula barklyi" and "haworthia maughanii."
  20. Googling things that seem absurd, such as "variegated ariocarpus" and spending 30 minutes at a time drooling over the results.

How about you, my dear succ-er friends? Do any of these resonate with you? Do you have any succulent-ish pastimes to add to the list?


Loree / danger garden link
5/9/2017 07:49:35 am

"Going to local nurseries to "see what's new" because you "never know"... I found a great little Aeonium tabuliforme at Home Depot the other day. If I hadn't walked by the succulents then I couldn't have rescued it! That said I wish you lived near me. You could stay busy for days checking, killing, and rechecking for mealybug.

Debra Lee Baldwin link
5/13/2017 12:02:57 pm

Well! Katie has surfaced at last with a clever poem and list. Thank you for the shout-out, dear one. I've been enjoying your posts on Instagram---you're a terrific photographer, and one smart, witty succaphile. Hugs!


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