I have pulled Echeveria 'Lola' and Aeonium 'Floresens' from Saturday's garage sale. I came up with something different and perhaps exciting for them.
It all started when deer nibbled on some of my deer-resistent plants I had in a 15-gallon grow bag outside the greenhouse. I potted the remnants in a smaller bag and moved it to a caged location at home, and also used the dirt for a few other pots. I ended up with half a bag of dirt and nothing to put in it....
I had been thinking about converting part of a planting bed inside the greenhouse to a succulent area as the first step toward converting the entire bed this fall. Eventually I planted the first of my tomatoes and peppers there instead. But a 15-gallon grow bag is almost the same area. I mixed the remaining soil with a cubic foot of pumice and some coco coir and filled the bag with that. In that I planted three Sempervivums (all from the Chick Charms line) and a SunSparkler Delosperma:
- Sempervivum 'Berry Blues'
- Sempervivum 'Appletini'
- Sempervivum 'Strawberry Kiwi'
- Delosperma 'Fire Spinner'
In addition to the excess grow bag, I also had two large ceramic pots that until recently held fake plants. There was enough of the soil mixture to fill those two pots also. I decided to plant 'Lola' in one of them based on a photo on the Mountain Crest Gardens web site showing a clump of 'Lolas' filling a pot. I want that. I picked 'Floresens' for the other pot because it is quite active right now and I want to give it a chance to stretch out.
Lots of room now for 'Lola' offsets to make their appearance.
This is the image from Mountain Crest Gardens that helped send me down this path. I would settle for one-fourth of that.
