I like the colander idea. It should provide really good drainage. I just may have to check out our resale shops.

Audrey, since you decided to bring Devil home, you can still try to acclimate it gradually to where you want it eventually (I assume closer to outside). You could give it more natural light near windows in this cold season for a while and then introduce it to natural lite in the shade outside for awhile and hopefully get it acclimated to outside morning side by early Spring? Good luck keeping it prospering!

I meant that it just has spent days inside a warm and no light home depot Not my house! Nope that is why I got these in the first place,it is a beautiful succulent that I do not need to bring inside. I have given tough love to all the babes I got a few months ago and I have been really lucky with no losses. We have already dipped into the twenties a few times now. Its now or never, because winter just started
It will be under a gazebo with some windows so it is not completely exposed to the elements.

pardalinum said:I like the colander idea. It should provide really good drainage. I just may have to check out our resale shops.

I was pretty excited to see it and it is all copper! There were lots of vendors with them of varying quality, so I think you can easily find one. Happy hunting!

You all are so lucky to be able to get such beautiful varieties. Australia is so BORING and limited with selection I will do the best I can with the sorry cultivars we have here. Meanwhile I'll just drool over your photos

Audrey, it will change color (staying in the brown/tan/red tones) according to the season and growing conditions. Mine are in full sun and fast draining sandy loam.
Love that colander and the way you planted it.

Patti, look what I found.
http://www.thesucculentgarden....
http://www.thesucculentgarden....

I Love your copper colander Audrey, and the lovely semps planted in it, I've not seen one that colour before. I have one in a colander, but it was a cheep (supposedly) stainless steel one, and its going rusty - bot very attractive lol

Sunlover said:You all are so lucky to be able to get such beautiful varieties. Australia is so BORING and limited with selection I will do the best I can with the sorry cultivars we have here. Meanwhile I'll just drool over your photos :)

You could raise your own pretty colours from seed, semp seed is readily available online, I had a lovely mix of colours and sizes when I grew some I bought on Ebay for 99p a couple of years back.

I have a white rusty colander myself. Used it many years in the kitchen but the handles fell of and never got around to fixing.

I love rusty pots! They are just perfect right before they blow. Kind of like a great pair of jeans I got that colander for $6 Not only that, they were interested in me vending my plants up there come spring. I was afraid to go in there. They opened up last year at the end of my street and I know it would easily be a money pit for me. They had really fun stuff and some things were a real bargain. It was a good thing I went in on a budget.

Here is a pic of some of the ones I planted a few months ago. They were all green then and I had no id's on any of the hundreds I got so it will be super exciting to see the colors I get.



Look at the two little web ones at the bottom have a little color. I thought those would always stay green. They are the only webbed ones I have that are changing colors, so I will be keeping a close eye on them. They are really tiny.

Audrey, the show is only beginning. You have some nice coloration happening there!!!

I agree with Julia.
They are going to knock your socks off this spring.

If I can make it through the summer with these I can see a new obsession in my future

I talked to a man the other day by the rack about them and it turns out that he used to own a nursery in northern cali. I asked him what he thought about growing these in Texas. He lives just a few miles from me and so is understanding of the weather we have in the rocky hills here. He said that they absolutely can be done, just provide ample shade in summer. So I will plant the majority of them in a spot under a tree that has sun in winter but is shaded by leaves in the heat of the year.

That sounds like a great plan Audrey.
I'm sure all of us look forward to seeing how it all turns out by this coming fall. This information from your experience will be a big help to others that live in your type of growing conditions.

My newest semp just arrived in the mail. Hooray! It is unidentified, a greyish color with curly tips and white cillia. Lovely. But the bottom leaves were pointing straight down and it was a bit stressed looking. It came a long way. I hope it is not coning but that would be just my luck! So I planted it deep and set the bottom leaves on top of the soil. I have no idea what cultivar it is so I hope it survives or at least the chicks do, but they are so tiny. Can anyone ID it?




Audrey that's what I plan to do up here, try to give the semps some shade in the summer. Right now my new ones are all in pots, not out in the garden with the established ones. Let's hope we can both have successful semp plantings!

Lynn, what a beautiful picture of beautiful you! It beats the color, shape or form of any semp...

Patti, you have chicks with the interesting looking hen...whew! I kind of like the curliness of some of the leaves on that hen...

Very nice Patti. The leaves might look like that because of being in the dark while traveling.
It will be fun watching it, to see what it will do.

Awww, Bev you are so sweet.
One hug is not enough.

What a beautiful day it was today. Sunshine was awesome, even if it was on the cold side.
I got all 14 beds tidied up. Lots of semps had to be re-united with the soil, with the freezing and thawing they had been heaved out of the ground. But almost all of them are looking good.

If it doesn't rain tomorrow I will get some shrub and tree pruning done. Little by little I am catching up.

Lynn love your avatar!!

Thank you Greg. I had forgotten just how blonde my hair was.
How are your semps doing?

Day four of my trip to Tenerife and not a semp in sight . Praeger would not be impressed if he found out his fellow Irishman was such a poor botanist .
Meanwhile back in Ireland the temperature has dropped to minus four , hope my semps are still alive .