Color Queens 🌈

Is it October and way too late to start any new gardening projects? Yes. Did that stop me from making a fairy garden today? Nope.

I have become overwhelmed with succulent babies lol

Repotted my lithops!! I now have a bowl of lithops😍

plant ig @basillicana 🌿

I love Sarcochilus orchids, because they’re compact and easy to grow, but they’re usually really expensive and hard to find in the SW. The Tucson orchid show had a ton of them on sale this morning, so I picked up this Sarco. “Royal Red” x Camira White “50 Cents” and a smaller white x white cross (which I’ll repot and photograph shortly)

Australian growers tend to pot them in fine bark and aquarium gravel. I opted for fine bark with a layer of sphagnum at the top of the pot to retain a bit of extra humidity. This one has a great root system, 6+ established fans, and another 3-4 coming in. Not quite sure what to expect with the flowers, since I’m not familiar with Sarco genetics, but I like a mystery! I think this one has a really lovely growth habit.

And the rest of the succulents! The first two photos are of some kind of haworthia venosa, the third photo is of a crassula rosularis (or crassula orbicularis var. rosularis) and in the fourth photo there’s a kalanchoe (it was only labeled as kalanchoe ‘azumi’). The kalanchoe was on sale and I got it on an impulse, but the haworthia venosa and crassula rosularis are plants that I’ve wanted for a long time. 

Tea and Village Plant Witch Aesthetic requested by anon

Speckly man has settled in handsomely and has perked up some. The furled leaf is also slowly opening.

Went to the plant store today!

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Crassula umbella aka Wine Cup succulent 

growing man

New Maranta baby 2.18.19