Inner leaves of the succulent pillow - done!
there are two more layers of leaves to sew together, and then add a backing. As I add the layers and it gets more three-dimensional, the work gets more complicated!
Apparently I stopped one day short of covering all my photos from the Philadelphia plant show! Probably because my kid had an entry in this category, which is also hard to photograph. Miniature gardens/landscapes, which covers a range of approaches. Info in alt-text; 2nd post to follow.
Here's my daughter's entry, which also had a lot less building, but above-average creativity. She was inspired by the mosaic lizard in Gaudi's gardens in Barcelona (photo in the half of the photos I haven't posted, but link here: https://wanderingtrader.com/travel-photos/parc-guell-lizard-barcelona/) and built a two-tiered planter with lizard and bowl.
Some plants are trickier to water than others :) Also, it needs a re-potting and better light setup (it looks like some parts are getting too much light and others too little). This is a Sedum Morganianum aka Donkey or Burro's Tail. In the old location it was hanging from a hook and now it's just kind of draped over a shelf. When the leaves fall off as they do with each move and watering I just drop them back into the pot.
Doing some spring pruning today. I usually like to let the plants grow the way they want, but in this case (and with some other plants I'll be trimming) they get too unbalanced and can topple over or stem weakening. This Pachyphytum Oviferum branched and offset/cloned a new smaller plant, and then grew sideways.
It was really cute and I wanted to leave it like this but the head of the original plant was too heavy to support over time.
Gave 2 more of our small, cute #Buddha#statues a Spring makeover. All were plain gray cement before we painted them gold. They look much better - golden! One in each #succulents planters😊 Sitting on our front porch steps.
Le projet de l'aprem, c'est commencer un chantier de rempotage de certaines de mes plantes-dragées (pachyphytum oviferum), qui sont mal plantées dans un substrat pas terrible.
Comme d'hab, ça va prendre plein de petites étapes.
Here's the little, um, pebble garden I made of lithops, a sort of stone-like plant. With one little monster in the middle. (And a bunch of actual stones.)
If it weren't for the kittens racing around my room every night, I'd be filling my window sill with crazy shapes and colors!!!
This Echeveria Lola succulent is about four years old. I had tried before to propagate it with leaf pullings without success. Late last summer it shifted in the pot with a different growth pattern (it looked healthy otherwise) and it seems it was making some room for more. This is the first watering of the year (I think) and I trimmed out the dead leaves that were covering the offsets and replaced it with a light cover of Seramis.
I actually got this #SixOnSaturday readyin time, but by then it was late and since it had been a work day, no more oomph to post ( I take text and alt text seriously, no quick matter! lol)
We had snowy days and cold (seasonally adjusted- days in mid minus teens C) so views of #snow covered #garden beds, #texture and cool #light with a shadowy selfie + Aloe #flowers taking a look at a Haworthia- indoors of course! #winter#WinterPictures#March#Alberta#houseplants#succulents#CountryLiving
Tiens, ça fait un bout de temps que j'ai pas donné de nouvelles des #lithops. Iels vont bien, toutes les nouvelles feuilles sont sorties, les anciennes presque finies de sécher.