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DigginDirt said:At some point I hope to collect enough blue & purple succulents to make a pot. I would also like to do the same thing with "autumn colors" and I'm still thinking about black & white. Maybe I should think smaller and build up the collections in order to make them sooner than later.

I was really into purple succulents for a while... the kind that I ended up growing and keeping are only their most royal purple in full sun, otherwise they tend to be blue or green. Interestingly many of the plants that turn pretty colors in response to sun stress (like aloes) also would do it as "autumn colors" in response to the beginning of cold nights. So you have the two-in-one package there. If you do ever end up collecting these plants, you've got a tricky juggling act keeping them going in NC. Overwintering, and then dialing up the exposure when they're outside to trigger the color, without causing a crash.

Here are a couple of my favorite purple plants, an aloe and a Dyckia (not a succulent but same lifestyle), in their full-sun and 50% shade versions.