Succulent Heaven

Don't mind me, I'm just overdosing on succulent pictures hoping that if I go to Home Depot during lunchtime again today they will miraculously have a bunch of new beautiful succulents, unlike yesterday. In fact, any of the following would be splendid....

By the way, during my image search I found an awesome website called Life on the Balcony, (Gardening Tips for Apartment and Condo Dwellers) whose author blogs all about patio gardening, particularly succulent container gardening. Some of the lovely photos in this post are from that blog, including the stunning one above. Check out Life on the Balcony!

*Gasp*
How I want thee.....

(All images found via a Google image search, Life on the Balcony or where otherwise noted by copyright on the image)

Garden Update

Here are some pictures I took earlier today, at two different times of the day, as you can tell by the different lighting in some images. My succulents and my cacti are thriving in this wild Miami heat, take a look...

See and read about the beginning of my plant and succulent obsession and how my garden has evolved and transformed in these, these and these posts..

These are some beautiful Purslanes (Portulaca oleracea - an annual succulent in the family of Portulacaceae) with pink flowers that I grouped together in this planter, I especially like how the flowers of the plant match the decorative flowers on the planter :)

More Purslanes with white and yellow flowers with a ground orchid on the far left...

purty yellow Purslane...

This here is what has become of the tiny basil plant that I planted in a strawberry pot: it got so huge that I had to transplant it into a larger stand alone planter! It has a funny lean because of how it grew out the side of the strawberry pot (seen in the background). I'm glad it seems to have survived the transplant! See and read about the transformation of my herb garden in these posts.

Some yet-to-be-potted cacti and succulents [and others], as you can see they're doing just fine though... still, I can't stand those black plastic pots so I'll be putting them in planters soon!

This is the succulent I found by the side of the road, it's a Kalanchoe, read about it in this post!

My Echeveria, I call it my bloomin' onion!! Read about its transformation in this post.

Pencil Cactus (Euphorbia tirucalli) has gotten enormous since I transferred it to a large aqua planter...

Last but not least, my indoor plants...

(All images in this post are my own personal photos)

New Brass Succulent Planter

Just a short post to share with you the little Indian brass planter I created the other day! I snagged this cute little brass container at a Goodwill for $1, I grabbed the most beat up drill bit I could find and drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, two holes in the bottom and it's a planter!

This one has Burro's Tail succulent, Hen and Chick Echeverias, and little baby Topsy Turvy succulents cut from my mama plant!

Garden pictures

A few weeks ago I picked up my grandmother and her friend to give them a ride over to my mother's house for a barbecue and couldn't help snapping pictures of her friend's beautiful plants, including some robust and healthy cacti and succulents! The amazing part is, most of these plants were grown from tiny tiny pieces/clippings that she has gotten from friends and relatives over the years, or even off the floor at the Home Depot garden section, wow! That takes patience!

Check out her baby Pineapple plant!! Sweet! One day I must take pictures of the enormous ones that my grandmother grows in her yard for my uncle!

And last but not least, two pictures of this adorable mini terracotta strawberry pot hanging from a palm tree in my grandmother's yard, it's overflowing with the cute Burro's Tail succulent and some plump and gorgeous Hen and Chicks! I adore it!