These are some plants I bought from an online garden shop, without knowing much about their needs and their botanical name. The only thing I knew was that these are very slow growing succulents that look like little stones. Their name comes from the Ancient Greek for “stone face” (λίθος – lithos, meaning “stone,” and ὄψ – ops, meaning “face”) as one may struggle to understand … Continue reading Lithops aucampiae 🌱🌵🌱
Hace un tiempo compré algunas suculentas pequeñas y cactus para un pequeño arreglo para el alféizar de mi ventana. Estas pequeñas plantas han crecido mucho ahora, a pesar de mi falta de cuidado. De hecho, parecen prosperar a pesar de mi falta de atención y riego. Una planta en particular, Haworthia marumiana, está extendiendo su territorio mucho más allá del lugar donde se plantó originalmente … Continue reading Haworthia marumiana 🌱🌵🇪🇸
This is one of the plants I bought from a local nursery without knowing its botanical name nor its specific needs. It turned out to be an Echeveria pulidonis. Echeverias are a large group of more than 150 species of small flowering succulents, originally from Central America, characterised by rosettes of leaves and clusters of rosettes. The variety name comes from a common male name in Spanish, … Continue reading Echeveria pulidonis 🌱🌵🌱
I’ve had this little plan for almost a year and i guess it has been used to living in my urban flat since I bought it last summer. It must be quite a different environment from the natural habitat in Southern Africa where this originates. My recent passion for succulents is bringing me to develop a little collection of plants, that hopefully will survive my … Continue reading Haworthia limifolia 🌵🌱🌵
Qualche tempo fa ho comprato delle piccole piante grasse e dei cactus per una composizione per il mio davanzale. Ormai queste piccole piante sono cresciute molto, nonostante la mia mancanza di cure. In realtà sembrano prosperare nonostante la mia mancanza di attenzione e di annaffiature. Una pianta in particolare, la Haworthia marumiana, sta estendendo il suo territorio ben oltre il luogo in cui era originariamente … Continue reading Haworthia marumiana 🌱🌵🇮🇹
Ho cominciato a collezionare succulente solo qualche mese fa, dopo aver realizzato che i miei prolungati periodi di assenza da Londra non mi permettevano di mantenere in vita delle piante nel mio appartamento. Le uniche piante che erano riuscite a sopravvivere, anzi a rigoglire, senza cure ae senza annaffiamenti erano le succulente. Ormai ho in casa una bella collezione di oltre 30 piantine di varie … Continue reading Le mie succulente preferite 🌱🌵🌱
A few days ago I went to my first botanical show and it was really a revelation. For months now I have been developing my personal collection of succulents, stemming from the realisation that these are the only plants that can survive my prolonged periods of absence from home. Because these are plants whose natural habitat is the desert, they actually thrive without water and … Continue reading Succulent show ❤️🌵❤️
The little plant I’m featuring in this post belogs to a different genus than the other ones in my succulent collection. This plant is belonging to the genus called kalanchoe, which actually comes from a Chinese name. This mean this group of plants has origins in Asia and Africa and was know already i at the end of 1700s with different varieties already identified and … Continue reading Kalanchoe thyrsiflora 🌵🌱🌵
One interesting variation on the very common crassula ovata, also known as jade or money plant, is the crassula gollum or monstruosa, where leaves take a tubolar or trumpet shape and resemble Shrek’s ears, which in another common name for this plant. The palnt grows fast and can reach the dimensionof a small shrub of 90 cm tall and 60 cm wide, as shown in … Continue reading Crassula monstruosa 🌵🌱🌵
My recent passion for succulents is bringing me to develop a little collection of plants, that hopefully will survive my prolonged absences and can cheer me up every day as I admire how fast they are growing during the good season. From a specimen a bought only a couple of months ago, I have been able to propagate already a couple of rosettes and planted … Continue reading Haworthia cymbiformis 🌱🌵🌱
