For the last few weeks, I have been popping in all my local charity shops to find planters in white/cream for my living room. I thought it would take forever to find planters I liked on such a tight budget but I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly it all came together.


With so many cuttings and baby succulents all over the place, I needed a way to save some space and display them so they are pleasing to the eye.


This was also a way for me to protect a few prized plants from the snow and intense cold weather we had in Feb/March, having a few of each plant in different locations around the home/garden for me gives peace of mind.

Crassula ‘Tresco Seaspray’. 
This cute little plant looks like a miniature Crassula ovata, but is much more delicate with slender stems with pairs of tiny fleshy leaves and pom-pom-like flowers. 

 A slightly shaded position results in a more greenish plant that stretches the normally short stems to about 8 inches, while a sunny spot reddens the leaves and keeps it at approximately 4 inches high. 

Hardy perennial if planted outside in a sunny but well-drained location.

It is very easy to propagate, and any fallen leaves very quickly root themselves.

This is a great plant to mix in with other small succulents in containers but likewise, a potful makes a delightful mini-statement on a sunny kitchen windowsill.

Commonly called zebra plant, Haworthia attenuata is a cold-sensitive succulent species grown for its eye-catching, green and white textured leaves.

How to Grow and Care

It will produce an abundance of offshoots, or pups, once established.
 The offshoots provide a simple and highly effective means of propagating new zebra plants if they are carefully removed and potted in a suitable growing mix. However, they should only be removed in spring or autumn when the plant is not actively growing, to reduce stress to both the offshoots and the parent plant.

• Locate the rooted offsets around the base of the zebra plant. Carefully scrape away the soil from around the base of the offshoots and look for small, pale pink or white roots.

• Insert the blade of a gardening knife into the soil midway between the parent plant and the rooted offshoot. Slide the blade through the soil to sever the connecting root.

• Etch out a 2-inch radius in the soil around the base of the rooted offshoot using the tip of your gardening knife. Dig down along the radial line to a 5-inch depth using a small handheld spade.

• Insert the blade of the handheld spade at an angle underneath the rooted offshoot. Carefully pry it loose from the soil and remove it. Fill in the hole left by the offshoot to protect the parent plant's roots.

• Crumble off half the soil from around the offshoot's rootball. Pot it in a small, 3- to 4-inch nursery container. Use a potting mix made up of 2 parts perlite, 2 parts coarse sand and 1 part sterile compost

• Place the potted zebra plant offshoot where it will receive bright, diffuse light

• Withhold watering for the first three days. Water only until the soil feels barely moist in the top inch. Maintain light, even moisture in the soil mixture, but allow it to dry out for a day or so once a week.

If like me, you have quickly become a succulent plant addict, then creating beautiful displays is a must try craft.

I had collected several white and off-white pots and decided it was time to create some plant art for my living room window.

Below are my results, I hope they inspire you to give it a try.

• Sedum Spurium Tri Colour.
• Sedum weinbergii ... Graptopetalum paraguayense - Mother of Pearl Plant, Ghost Plant
• Sedum Palmeri 
• Sedum-spathulifolium-carnea
• Sedum rupestre ‘Blue Spruce’ 
• Live Moss 
• Cactus Focus Repotting Mix 

A moss covering adds texture and colour, I mist this daily and have never had any issues with rot from the succulents.

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• Red Succulent - Sedum Coral Carpet 
• Pale Blue/Green Succulent - I believe it to be Moonstone.
• Live Moss.
• Cactus Focus Repotting Mix 

Check out my little store of succulent cuttings and plants here

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Common Name

Description

Distribution

Common name Waxplant, Waxflower, Waxvine     
Botanical name: Hoya Carnosa.

I have just been given a small rooted Hoya and I've been looking online how to care for this little beauty.

Below are some tips and facts I have picked up along the way.

Hoya carnosa - wax plant - grows with long, slender vines which are covered with thick, green leathery leaves. The leaves are sometimes flecked with silvery or creamy white. The wax plant will produce parachute clusters of star-shaped, flowers with five-point centers, very variable in colour. The flowers are so intricately detailed, uniformly shaped and shiny and therefore also called porcelain flower.

Hoyas prefer morning sun. If they get too much shade they won’t flower. Full sun, however, will turn them yellow and they’ll not be happy



Cuttings.

Encouraging the cutting to develop roots. Place it in a glass of water and wait until it develops roots, around 5-10 cm long. The cuttings need to be constantly damp to develop roots.




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