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How to Build a Cacti and Succulent Garden
Where to Buy Succulents: Houston-area shops and online faves
Where do I buy succulents? I get this question so often, it’s high time for a dedicated post!
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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How to Take Succulent Cuttings
How to take succulent cuttings and a bit of ‘shop’ talk about my experimental in-ground succulent garden.
How to Repair Stretched and Damaged Succulents
Learn how to repair succulents that have become stretched (etiolated) from insufficient sunlight, and those that have been damaged by sun, overwatering, etc. Demonstrating with an Echeveria subsessilis and Echeveria agavoides.
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Make More Sucs – Intro to Propagation: New sections added to The Succulent Manual
Heads up! I just released the intro and first chapter to the propagation section ‘Make More Sucs’ in The Succulent Manual- read it now by becoming my patron on Patreon. I have also made the first two chapters of the manual available to the public!
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Air Plants – Bringing Home Tillandsia
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.
How to Repot a Big Sharp Cactus
Today I’m showing you a (sped-up) demo of how to repot a big sharp cactus without getting pricked (too much). Continue reading “How to Repot a Big Sharp Cactus”
Introducing The Succulent Manual
I do think it’s high time I let y’all in on a secret project I’ve been pounding away at…introducing:
The Succulent Manual – A Care and Repair Guide for all Climates
