Succulent Care and Education
Sidebar: Explore the different topics, plant index, and learn about different places to shop for succulents.
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.
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”
If you’ve tried propagating in the past but didn’t have much luck, I’m going to discuss the main reasons and solutions to problems I’ve encountered personally and heard about from others.
Continue reading “Video: Succulent Propagation- Growing Tips and Troubleshooting”
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…
It’s that time of year (Spring) when mealybugs can be a problem. Here’s what to look for and a few ways to get rid of them. Continue reading “Mealybugs on Succulents- Signs and Solutions”
How to Pollinate a Cactus flower, including a mini time lapse of them blooming and some macro views!
Continue reading “How to Pollinate a Cactus Flower (and watching them bloom)”
Meet the plants in my succulent and cacti garden featured in my previous video ‘How to Build a Cacti and Succulent Garden’
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.