I cram these sempervivums in this low container, they look better if they seem to mound. But since it gets too hot here, it goes dormant, then perks up nicely during Fall to Spring. This natural active and dormant cycle somehow helps control the growth so even if it may start to finally go crammed, it will just hold back when dormant time returns.
03Feb2016
29Mar2016 - I love how it makes its babies, surely hoping then I will have a really good yield to fill the container
14Jun2016 - dormancy time, so rosettes tighten up and got to give them more shade to endure our tireless heat here
Hooray for Fall temp cool downs! Wake up time and semps are actively growing again! Hope it manages more to fill up the container. Rain has abated for awhile, so it is just cool and dry, just the way it likes.
I got mixed succulents in these containers, they endure well our cold temps in winter and our intense heat during the warm months. Thankful for the upright growing cacti that just slowly fills up the container and Faucaria tuberculosa, just low growing and manages some nice daisy-like blooms during Fall. Got to keep some room there, even if they are crammed there. Some containers I can really just manage two kinds of containers, leaves are either just too wide growing and seems to look better not going too jungle like.
This wooden box has more mixed succulents, which at times I have to cut down and replant when some get too leggy.
08Jan2016
05Nov2016
This pastry container houses some Sedum rubrotinctum, Echeveria 'Sleepy', Haworthia cuspidata and Haworthia emelyae, giving them all a good wiggle room to spread and mound, though the sedum and echeveria tend to grown more upright so at a certain time, got to trim them down and replant on same container.
14Nov2015
31Mar2016
03May2016 - active blooming time for the Haworthias
05Nov2016
Got in this container Kalanchoe marmorata and Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi, both has grown rather tall, but I am keeping them like that, seems like a little forest, though Kalanchoe marmorata is more temperamental, easily drops its leaves. The active and dormant cycles helps control their growth, so the container though full never gets crammed. But soon I should decide to cut and replant to make them less leggy.
04Feb2016
05Nov2016
