Succulent Care and Education
In this video we go over the basic but most important requirements succulents need including light, soil, the best containers to use, how to know when to water, and a few other essential tips to keeping your plants happy and multiplying.
Continue reading “Succulents 101- A Care Primer for Beginners”
Unboxings are fun and I’m in L.O.V.E. with these beautiful specimens from Fairyblooms ( fairyblooms.com ) via plant-mail!
Continue reading “21 Beautiful and Weird Succulents You Need- a double unboxing!”
I’ve wanted to make a visual map of where my fellow succulent lovers are located for a long time. Knowing where someone is located is essential to forming good care advice and it’s the first question I ask anyone who reaches out for help.
I thought it would be fun and informative to open the box from our Texas Succulent Swap with y’all! Watch me unwrap and demonstrate how to wrap* succulents for shipping in the mail. I also explain how to set up a swap so you can host your own plant-mail party!
Continue reading “How to host a succulent swap: An unboxing and plant wrapping demo”
Hello from Houston, Texas, Zone 9A! Spring is here in full effect and I’m really digging the sunshine. Tomorrow is April first so I’m going to include what plants flowered for me in March and what is budding or close to blooming in April. I’m also including some other notes on growth and dormancy. I keep my plants outdoors in pots and in the ground. There’s a lot happening right now…
This is a bonus post to show and tell the backstory to the garden featured in my latest video ‘How to Build a Cacti and Succulent Garden.‘
We moved to our new house in the summer of 2016. Not long after I settled in, I was given some big prickly pear pads from a lovely local Houstonian who has an amazing xeriscaped front yard. Seeing her accomplishment flourish inspired me to try my hand at a much smaller-scaled cacti garden.
Continue reading “Succulent and cacti garden progress in Houston, Texas”
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!
Continue reading “Where to Buy Succulents: Houston-area shops and online faves”
How to take succulent cuttings and a bit of ‘shop’ talk about my experimental in-ground succulent garden.