Hardy Echeverias
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Herts Mike
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Hardy Echeverias
Recommendations please!
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Re: Hardy Echeverias
Echeveria lilacina is hardy down to -3.5 but cannot tolerate very high temperatures
Henry,
A 15 year old with a love for Slow growing cacti, highland nepenthes and bulbophyllum orchids.
A 15 year old with a love for Slow growing cacti, highland nepenthes and bulbophyllum orchids.
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Re: Hardy Echeverias
elegans
secunda glauca
x imbricata
rosea
agavoides
these have been outside for me for several years. -8C was the low in this time.
E. lilacina I would say was a touch hardier as it came through the BFTE for me, planted in a south facing crevice. So would have seen around -5C where it is, plus in the heat waves of th last couple of summers it would have been baked around 35C+ within the rocks. E. purpusorum ditto.
I have a few more but my main one is E. elegans, which now forms large areas of ground cover and, after I stuck bits in a yew tree, is doing the same there.
secunda glauca
x imbricata
rosea
agavoides
these have been outside for me for several years. -8C was the low in this time.
E. lilacina I would say was a touch hardier as it came through the BFTE for me, planted in a south facing crevice. So would have seen around -5C where it is, plus in the heat waves of th last couple of summers it would have been baked around 35C+ within the rocks. E. purpusorum ditto.
I have a few more but my main one is E. elegans, which now forms large areas of ground cover and, after I stuck bits in a yew tree, is doing the same there.
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Herts Mike
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Re: Hardy Echeverias
Many thanks. Just what I wanted!
Re: Hardy Echeverias
Hi Mike,
Echeveria elegans survives well in outside clay pots, rockery and wall baskets. Even seeded itself into adjacent alpine pots.
Echeveria alpina in clay pot outside.
Echeveria Blackprince has survived well in wall baskets. Wall baskets get very little rain. (minus 10)
Echeveria setosa and varieties, E. gilva. E.alpina E. pearl von Nurnberg all thriving in cold greenhouse. (-5)
I water all including sempervivums and other hardy succulents to reduce risk of vine weevil which are around in our hedges. Seems to work.
Andy
Echeveria elegans survives well in outside clay pots, rockery and wall baskets. Even seeded itself into adjacent alpine pots.
Echeveria alpina in clay pot outside.
Echeveria Blackprince has survived well in wall baskets. Wall baskets get very little rain. (minus 10)
Echeveria setosa and varieties, E. gilva. E.alpina E. pearl von Nurnberg all thriving in cold greenhouse. (-5)
I water all including sempervivums and other hardy succulents to reduce risk of vine weevil which are around in our hedges. Seems to work.
Andy
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Re: Hardy Echeverias
E. setosa is cold hardy, but really doesn't like being wet in winter. Might survive outdoors somewhere with extreme drainage. No problem in an unheated greenhouse or cold frame.
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Herts Mike
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Re: Hardy Echeverias
I need to fill in some gaps you see....
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Re: Hardy Echeverias
Is that a sago palm in the ground ??.
I have agave striata that seems very tough but no offsets sorry
I have agave striata that seems very tough but no offsets sorry
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varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
Bucks, UK
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Re: Hardy Echeverias
what about senecio angel wings
Tina
varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
Bucks, UK
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varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
Bucks, UK
Branch co-ordinator, Northants & MK BCSS https://northants.bcss.org.uk
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Herts Mike
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Re: Hardy Echeverias
Yup. Cycas revoluta been outside in a pot for some years as is the Agave neomexicana also in the picture.
Alie striatula moved from a bed elsewhere.
All suggestions gratefully received. Bed is west facing, stony and on a slope btw.
Not sure about putting my smaller polyphylla there though. What do you reckon?
Alie striatula moved from a bed elsewhere.
All suggestions gratefully received. Bed is west facing, stony and on a slope btw.
Not sure about putting my smaller polyphylla there though. What do you reckon?