That is beautiful, Greg!

Beautiful Greg.

Thanks all - I got these as cuttings from @Patty mostly, but Lynn and Julia too - they have grown so well in the past year!

They have treated you good Greg.

My sedum friends!

I did had a chance to take a pic of my little styrofoam pot.



I am setting up a mini oriental garden and was looking for something red, hardy, and small. This may work. I saw someone talking about one of their sedum that crested. Did it ever work out? I want to see if I can use it in a small pot in the mini garden to look like a tree.

Nice variety there, Cinta!

Nice colors in that great rock covered styrofoam.
I wonder if you could use something to prop up the sedum stem, maybe to encourage it to thicken? Otherwise it will root all along the stem, into the soil. You can even prune the stems back a bit to encourage branching and new leaf growth. Easy to prune out any unwanted growth. I can't wait to see what you do with it.

Thank you Lynn I will sit it up more. It does not show good in the pic but it is sitting up high but you are right if I set it up taller it might get thicker. I do want it to look like a trunk so it will look like a tree.

The oriental pics show a red tree and this is going to be a outdoor mini garden so I wanted something hardy. I could think of a lot of my tender sucs that would work but nothing hardy.

This is going to be an exciting experiment Cinta. I think I will also give this method a try. The great part of this type of sedum is that if it breaks off it will regrow from the stalk or roots.

Cinta that is pretty!

Hello my plant loving friends! Sorry I have been missing lately. I have been so busy with the kids and the house that I haven't been able to post. I do not even remember what my last post was about?
This one is a question about some lovely plants that I rescued from Fruit Basket. I am not quite sure as to what I should do with a couple of them.

The first is a large echeveria that was "attacked" by the neighboring cactus (this is what the employee said happened to it anyway), and it is damaged quite badly, but I know there is hope, because if you look at the new growth, at the crown, it is perfect.
SO, my question on this big girl is should I remove all the leave that are damaged and try to propagate them and then cut the top off and give it a new start? I could grow a new, fresh plant by doing this, otherwise, I will be stuck with a long stalk of fat damaged leaves and a pretty new top.






Here is my second dilemma. I purchased 2 different type 2 of Kalanchoe that seem to have some sort of fungus on them. The new growth if beautiful and even some of the bottom leaves seem to be okay, but as you can see, the other leaves are covered in a white and brown coating. It does not wipe off. It is stuck to the leaves and is hard. Here are some photos. I really do not have any ideas on this one....that is what all of you are for :)













SOOOOO....What do you think???? HELP ME!!!!!

I think this is a time to call in @tarev
Our resident tender succulent plant expert.

Hi Lynn and Brea! Am just a hobbyist too and hit & miss at times

For the first one, the echeveria: the plant has gone leggy, so a good candidate to chop off the stem, maybe at the 2nd segment counting from the bottom. Typically these succulents may also start to drop off too the older lower leaves, as the seasons change. Now for the top part. You can either keep the leaves and just just apply some cinnamon on that bruised/chewed off leaf on the top. Or remove some of the badly bruised ones and retain about four leaves on the top.

Can you still wait a bit like end of March to do the cut? I prefer to do the chopping part when it is already Spring. Your plant is starting to be active since it is attempting to grow a new leaf, so its growing energy is coming back. If you do decide to chop of the stem, apply cinnamon on the exposed cut and allow to callus, before sticking into soil again.

For the kalanchoes, to me it looks like it has powdery mildew. I would quarantine that plant, and spray the entire plant and soil with neem oil.

Thank you tarev. Your hit and miss have saved many a plant for me over time.

Thank you Tarev! That is exactly what I shall do!!!!! I will keep you all updated on the status

Good luck Brea! Hope your plants recover well. Btw, I sent you a treemail several days ago abt the aeonium..if you are still interested, just reply there.

Glad to help Lynn

TexasPlumeria87 said:I just found some volunteer seedlings from my Autumn Joy sedum. I threw the seed heads in the ground when I was cleaning them up and they sprouted.

I do not know about Autumn Joy but this one was on the property I first purchased 30 yrs ago. I have always cut the heads off every Spring and throw them where I want a tall succulent and blooms late fall and they make new plants.

My Sedum dasyphyllum minor is really happy this time around, as with the noid Semp growing in same container, they do struggle a lot come summer time here. I now know I have to move it in a shady part of my garden by summer, so it will not get toasted by our dry heat:


Got this new Sedum mexicanum a couple of weeks ago from another ATP friend- Esperanza, it sure likes it here for now: I have planted it in several areas, still testing which spot it will like, this is just some of them, at the base of a Yucca:


Had to trim down my Sedum rubrotinctum in Feb, got too overgrown and leggy:

Been cutting parts since Fall, and they are now thriving too in this hanging basket: