We've finally had a hard, lasting frost here on the south coast, too late for last month's winter-themed photo competition. Here are a few of my outside plants in their winter finery...
Rosularia sempervivum ssp. glaucophylla
Sempervivum 'Gold Nugget'
Sempervivum globiferum ssp. allionii 'Oki'
Frosty day pictures
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Frosty day pictures
Philip P-V
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Re: Frosty day pictures
Lovely photos, thanks for sharing.
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Re: Frosty day pictures
Terrific photos, Philip.
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Re: Frosty day pictures
You sure they aren't 1/2 price spray painted Xmas gifts?
Seriously, nice pics, and I hope no plants were damaged by the frost.
Seriously, nice pics, and I hope no plants were damaged by the frost.
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Re: Frosty day pictures
It really hasn't been that kind of winter here. That said, the long, deep freeze we had in December 2022 saw off anything likely to be vulnerable in this (notably a couple of Aristaloe aristata).
The main problem I have growing succulents outside is our garden's massive population of snails and slugs, none of which seem to have read the numerous lists of gastropod-proof plants which explicitly mention sempervivum and sedum as being safe. All of those above are in a container which I protected with a copper band, which seems largely to have worked. Another plant of S. globiferum 'Oki' in an unprotected pot has been chomped to virtually nothing, along with some other sempervivums, a couple of delospermas and, last summer/autumn, most of the hylotelephiums in the open garden. At least they are less active in the cold.
Petrosedums and dwarf rhodiolas seem immune and I am pleased that a Delosperma lehmannii seems to be completely untouched by either frosts or wildlife. The latter looks too exotic to survive outside in the UK, very much resembling something like Crassula plegmatoides, but the cutting in a large bowl outside is currently looking much better than its mother plant in the greenhouse, the leaves of which are shrivelling in the artificial drought.
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Re: Frosty day pictures
Even frostier this morning...
Lewisia 'Little Raspberry' - not usually thought of as a foliage plant Sempervivum 'Virgil' Sempervivum 'Pacific Purple Shadows' And either I have discovered a new species, Hylotelephium crystallinum, or a rather premature shoot of H. telephium 'Dark Magic' is regretting its early start...
Lewisia 'Little Raspberry' - not usually thought of as a foliage plant Sempervivum 'Virgil' Sempervivum 'Pacific Purple Shadows' And either I have discovered a new species, Hylotelephium crystallinum, or a rather premature shoot of H. telephium 'Dark Magic' is regretting its early start...
Philip P-V
Poole, Dorset
Growing South American cacti, Echinocereus, succulent bromeliads, smaller Aloeae, hardy Crassulaceae and whatever else catches my eye.
Poole, Dorset
Growing South American cacti, Echinocereus, succulent bromeliads, smaller Aloeae, hardy Crassulaceae and whatever else catches my eye.