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Where to Buy Succulents: Houston-area shops and online faves

Crassula 'Morgan's Pink'

Where do I buy succulents? I get this question so often, it’s high time for a dedicated post! 

I also sell succulents on occasion – check out the shop! 

Whether you’re from the Houston-area like me or looking online for the best plant-mail around, these are the shops I can refer you to based on my experience as a customer, or that others I trust have spoken highly of. Please let them know Andrea with Sucs for You sent you!

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Air Plants – Bringing Home Tillandsia

Plant mail! My order from Mountain Crest Gardens

Tillandsia aka ‘Air plants’ — what a weird and wonderful expression of flora! I regularly see them growing in oak trees, clinging to electric wires, and stumble across them on the ground with no effort. I’m talking about the epiphytic moss balls that form on branches and resemble birds nests of various sizes. It’s hard to resist scooping up a tangled bundle of what I now know is Tillandsia recurvata, and not moss at all. The long curly Spanish Moss ‘Tillandsia usneoides’ (also not moss) is a bit less common around here, and is also an air plant. I remember trying to jump up and pull some out of a tree on our farm as a kid, but it was always just out of reach.

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Succulent Care: Questions from my inbox

Succulent help

What you’re asking … There’s a trend, mind you.

Howdy fellow succulent keepers! Well, this has been a week for the history books, has it not? I wanted to share a little look into the questions folks are asking me about their succulents, but first I must use a bit of this space to discuss what’s taking place in America right now.

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Sucs for You is now on Patreon!

Fellow succulent lovers: This time, I need your help. Please read on for my latest announcement. (Hint: I started a Patreon succulent care community)

As of today (Aug 16, 2017 ) Sucs for You has over 16k followers on Instagram, 4k on Youtube, and several hundred between Twitter, Facebook – and of course our Facebook Group. We’re a big community and I’m having a blast learning with you and I hope you are too.

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