So do any of you try just keeping succulents indoors all the time? I'm curious if they would make it indoors all year round with the moderate temps. Mine would get bright light in the late fall, through early spring, but be shaded late spring through early fall. Would that not be enough sunshine for them?

I have a small collection of haworthia and various noid cactus I keep in the house year round. They do well.

I love the Zebra haworthia, I need to keep an eye out for one of those :)

Alan

I have several Euphorbias, some Aloes, Caudiciforms and a few others that I keep in the house year around. They are doing well.

I am a toddling newcomer to these forums from Korea(South). It's overwhelmingly impressive to me that there are so many gardening mentors here - all of them keenly intent on how to fondle a seed into a bud, how to nourish a bud to bloom, and how to encourage a flower till it seeds. The world can keep its greens and colors because it has much more people like you than soldiers and politicians.

Korea is a small country in itself, and no more than 17% of its territory is inhabitable or cultivable with the rest of it crumpled by steep mountains and the vast Demilitarized Zone, the legacy of the Civil War 60 years ago. The only area available to most Korean urban dwellers for transformation into a flower bed or anything similar to one is the apartment veranda hardly exceeding 3 or 4 square feet per household. The winter temperature easily plummets lower than -15 deg centigrade(5 Fahenheit), while the summer is scorching hot over 37 deg centigrade(99 Fahenheit). Family members are all busy at schools, semiconductor foundries, or automobile plants. All these factors preclude almost every luxurious imagination about domestic gardening that is possible in most American and European homes: but for several alternatives countable on a single hand. The given constraints are longevity, sturdiness, slow growth and minimum space requirement. If you want to be a bit more sumptuous than others, rarity can be added. That is why orchids and bonsai plants are so popular in Korea. These days the people of the local internet cafe where I belong are impassioned by the simplified beauty of some cultivars of the Echeveria Agavoides species, especially the "Lipstick" or "Ebony". These two cultivars boast all the merits that our unprivileged maniacs seek, and what's more they carry the oriental charm as if gingerly revealed out of the shrouded beauty.

The problem is that the "Lipstick" and "Ebony" are yet so scarce in supply here in Korea that all our cafe members can do at the moment is to exchange the photos that we come by here and there. If anyone in this forum could drop us a hint where we could place a regular order of them, she or he will be chanted for long, long years to come among our members. My e-mail number is <[email protected]>.

Thank you very much indeed, everyone.

26Jan12
ks kim

Greetings, cosmonomad and welcome. You are so right about those two Echeverias. I have both 'Lipstick' and 'Ebony' and they are fabulous plants. I am uncertain about mail-order there but will keep a look out for any information on that. Hopefully someone else will be along here who knows more.

Welcome to 'All things plants' Kim. We look forward to hearing more from you!!

Welcome Kim! You write so beautifully and descriptively----I would love to read more!

You might want to explore the sempervivums, as many are quite compact and make hardy container plants. Does Korea have stringent regulations about plants coming into the country? One of the nice things about succulents is that they will tolerate being packed and shipped without soil, and so are easier to share than other plants.

Here is a link to the sempervivum forum---I had plants for many years, but until I was introduced to the wide variety of them through this group, I had no idea there were so many different types. http://garden.org/forums/view/...

I have a lump in my throat for seeing my timid self-introduction and personal request so heartily welcomed by you all.

Thank you, imapigeon, for leading me to the sempervivum forum photo gallery. Only looking around the plants uploaded on it was enough to be a real feast to my eyes. With regard to the domestic regulations on importing plants into Korea, yes we do have to undergo the quarantine procedures to bring living herbs, shrubs and trees into the territory from abroad. Nonetheless, cacti and succulents are classified as relatively safe plants, and the procedures applicable to them are nominal. Some of our cafe members have imported various species from Holland, South Africa and several Southeast Asian countries with few difficulties in customs clearance. The ordinary mail-order packing turns out to endure the airfreight very well, even though the size is fairly bulky.

Thank you, SongofJoy and GardenGuyAZ as well, for your kind advice and mentoring.

If anyone of you all has an opportunity to visit Korea, please don't forget a good friend of yours is waiting for you with a tall glass of chilled beer.

27Jan12
ks kim

Checking my little garden and seeing so many little succulent leaves scattered on the ground..collected them for now in a pile. These ones are so prolific, growing like grass in any season in my area and the ID I got for it is Crassula mesembryanthemoides. Have to keep picking them up or they might grow in between our pavers.

Got this new Aeonium over the weekend, and finally repotted it:
Aeonium hierrense

That is really a beauty Tarev.

I like it to..always love it when succulents are blushing red on the tips. My Aeoniums that I have outside are doing really well, but really struggling with the ones that are indoors surviving. Finally got me a water meeter to see if that helps with not over-watering them.

Alan

Thanks Lynn and Alan!

Here is the complete set-up where this aenonium went. Actually I have neglected this cacti planter a bit, with the bigger cacti leaning badly thus had some bruising, some little soft spots, so finally got them properly upright and the write-up about the Aeonium hierrense says it can grow tall enough, thought it will complement the tall cacti in due time.

Oh my...look what found it's way into my mailbox!! =) Hmmmm...

Isn't it pretty!

Very very nice Alan!

Just look at that wonderful variegation. Awesome plant, Alan.

Tarev, I love the combination of different shapes and textures. That is going to be beautiful as it matures.

Tarev, for some reason, I thought you had planted an adenium in there. I was looking all over for that darn adenium, and couldn't find it. Brain short I guess. It happens more often the older I get... Why am I laughing!!!