Succulent Care and Education
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Sucs Talk: The blog section and main page (you are here), featuring articles and videos on succulent care and projects.
The Succulent Manual: Become more confident about understand your plants' needs based on where you're growing them. Available in eBook format and an interactive online web manual.
Care Guide: Basic care tips including my DIY fast-draining soil recipe.
Shop: Looking for good drainage materials? I got you! Need 1-on-1 help? I'm here for you! I also sell plants and other garden items on occasion and list them in the shop.
Supplies: Tools of the trade, products I love and/or can’t do without.
Get Help: Learn the different ways to get help and up your succulent game.
It’s cold and raining in Houston (as usual) but I really needed to work out my green thumb, so here’s a quickie video of me making a propagation tray. It was very calming — you should make one too! I’m using a cardboard crawfish tray and my succulent dirt recipe. I’m mostly only placing leaves that already have roots. The others are hanging out in a cardboard egg carton under my grow light.
Continue reading “Rainy Day Succulent Propagation Tray”
In the ground and in pots, I’ll show you how I cover my succulents when the temperatures drop to frost and freeze levels in this video.
Continue reading “Winter protection for your outdoors succulents”
After digging up my old garden because we moved, I finally got them back in the ground at our new place! (◔◡◔✿) Watch me work y’all! I also crack open some old kokedama balls and use the plants in the garden 😉 (Part of the video is in fast-mo)
Continue reading “Building my new in-ground succulent garden in Houston, TX”
Merry Christmas! As promised in my last garden update video here – https://youtu.be/KkLXpQU7108 – I dug up my plants, packed them all in my car, and brought them to our new home the day before a freeze came through. Today, Christmas Day, it was 75F.
Continue reading “Moving Day! Digging up my succulent garden”
I’m moving y’all so I made an update video of my in-ground succulent garden. See what survived and what didn’t do so well from the video back in March 2018- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfkuB… My next video is of digging them up and moving them to my new house 😉 Stay tuned!
Continue reading “Succulent Garden Update”
If you’re not familiar with Patreon, it’s basically a website that allows creators to connect with fans, and for fans to support creators so they can continue to produce content.
I love it because it gives me a way to reward my ‘patrons’ with different gifts and tokens of thanks. And since it’s not social media based, there’s a more intimate feel to the conversations taking place there.
For a limited time, new Patrons who pledge over $15 will get a complimentary copy of the eBook!
Patrons who pledge $5 or more receive priority responses to their questions! Just fill out this form or email me directly with your questions and photos. (Be sure to let me know you’re one of my patrons.) Our exchanges will be shared in a post on Patreon so everyone can so that others can learn along with us!
When shelf real estate gets tight, drill and hang your pots! I’m using a Ryobi One+ with a glass and tile bit.
I am moving to a new house and my BIG in-ground Aloe maculata is coming with! It’s 4-feet wide (+22 lbs) and I’m digging it up to relocate it by myself. Wish me luck!
Continue reading “Digging up my big Aloe – Moving Your In-ground Plants”
Watch me rescue and propagate one of my favorite plants— a Kalanchoe tubiflora ‘Chandelier Plant,’ one of the Mother of Thousands. It is a fast grower and gets so tall it can’t support its own weight. (We’ve been through this before…) It offsets from plantlets along the leaf-tips as pictured in the intro image.
Continue reading “Kalanchoe tubiflora ‘Chandelier Plant’ repair, propagation, progress”