Paul in Essex wrote: Liz - A. sedifolium - interesting. Nothing else about the plant looks like that one!

Having said that is is quite densely branching and the leaves are very succulent. Very interesting!

Greenlarry - sunlight would of course intensify the colour - but not the hue. caramel is a very uncommon colour in Aeonium.

Liz - A. sedifolium - interesting. Nothing else about the plant looks like that one!

That is a gorgeous and unusual colour. I wonder what the parentage could be to give that caramel?

Lovely well-grown plants!

Tina wrote:OOh thats a big one !, how long has it been planted out ?

About 10 years, I think.

I know,Tina, 8ft is pretty small.... it is around 14ft now...

My tip is chopsticks. That and a pair of tweezers is all I need to handle plants and tuck in substrate when repotting (I collect mostly smaller species). Rather than chopsticks, I use a pair of toothbrushes for the same job when repotting - one (brush end) to gently hold the (globular) cactus in pl...

Yours may or may not die but in habitat they form dense colonies so i guess they don't necessarily!

Beautiful plant, I should add - very well grown.

Wonderful stuff - definitely needs to be in print!

I can foresee an issue with using O. humifusa as grafting stock - in winter it reduces it's turgidity as a means of winter survival and as a result completely flops over. Presumably anything you graft onto it will also flop over.