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Recent Plantings!

7/12/2013

 
As some of you have noticed, I've been posting a little less frequently than usual lately--that's because I've been so busy planting!  (Well, and working a lot.)  I thought I'd share a few recent favorites from the past two weekends.

This one occupied several hours.  I took an old basket my girlfriend dug out of the garage and made a sempervivum landscape.  This has at least 20 different varieties of semps and jovibarba, and was a blast to make.  You can't tell from this photo, but I played a lot with height, and made little hills and valleys.  I also used chunks of wood and stone in the landscape.  The final product is about 24-30" x about 14-18".  Click on the pic below for a larger version.
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I made an indoor planting of five different kinds of haworthia here, using a pot I found in San Diego for $3.  (It didn't have holes in the bottom, but the problem was easily remedied by a diamond-tipped drill bit.)  From left to right, these are: h. parksiana; h. cymbiformis (variegated); h. truncata; [aack--not sure]; h. cooperi. 
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Next up: crassula coccinea (I think), surrounded by a cottony expanse of sempervivum arachnoideum, potted into a shallow square pot from Succulent Gardens.  Here's a birds'-eye view.  The semps become a kind of top dressing themselves.
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Finally, I made this one using a gorgeous echeveria chroma ($1.98, Half Moon Bay Nursery) and some gasteria pups and small, misc. cuttings.  I integrated random little metal objects my handy girlfriend was throwing away when she cleaned out her workshop.  What would you call this--steampunk succulents?
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candace s
7/12/2013 07:20:45 am

omg... love love love! so beautiful! esp the haworthia!!!

Noreen
7/12/2013 09:11:41 am

You have been busy. My fav is the haworthias also. Is that a H truncata in the center?

Noreen
7/12/2013 09:15:08 am

Duh...just saw the description of the pic...I'm on the lookout for one...pricey for good sized ones.

GS link
7/13/2013 10:22:14 am

Hm, well, I just happen to have a newly separated pup of haworthia truncata v. maughanii. It's tiny and gorgeous. If you pay shipping, and want it, it's yours. Just message me via my FB page. And thanks for reading! :)

GS link
7/16/2013 01:52:50 am

BTW, I got a healthy, good-sized one from Corona Cactus nursery online. If memory serves, it was under $10.

Debra Lee Baldwin link
7/13/2013 09:59:56 am

Hm. Steampunk Succs? I don't know what amazes me more...that succulents look so good in oversized metal thingies, or that your girlfriend happened to have them kicking around in her workshop. What does she do for a living, construct freeway overpasses?

GS link
7/13/2013 10:18:47 am

Heh, heh! Nope, but she woodworks, collects old tools, and looooves PARTS. Of almost anything. It's awesome. The other day she randomly gave me a small, rusty frying pan. (What??) Of course, I put succulents in it.

Cassidy link
7/15/2013 01:54:22 am

Beautiful! I love the variety of colors and textures you used.


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