When rosette-type succulents get leggy and stretched, what do you do with them? Chop off the healthy rosette at top and replant it, right? Maybe take the remaining leaves and propagate?
Well, I saw this post on Fat Plant Farm’s Instagram feed earlier this week that showed another alternative: removing the lower leaves, creating a tree form. Succulent trees! And it’s not just a jade tree that you’re used to seeing, but rosette trees.
And they are adorable. Fat Plant Farm is calling them mini palm trees.
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It’s cute. What happens from here for these plants? Do they grow more lower leaves that you just remove? Do they grow taller and flop over? I’m curious now.
Once I started looking for these types of succulent trees, I found a few more…
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Have you seen anything like this before? Maybe around Instagram and Pinterest? It’s new to me. Have you grown a succulent tree like this one? How’s it going? Let me know in the comments or on Twitter @howtonaturechat.
I snipped some branches off my basil plant to get the whole thing branching and bushier, so I plucked these basil leaves and left them in water for later use. It’s been a few days and I’m ready to use them, so today I looked to make sure they weren’t doing anything funny in the water. Yep, they were. Nature finds a way.
But I feel like if I’d tried to do this on purpose, it wouldn’t have worked. Haha.
The colors in this photo mean spring to me. Succulents have started to grow again, and a few leaves dropped off my jelly bean plant/pork and beans plant/Sedum rubrotinctum.
The plant these fell off of is about a year old and have become leggy and not so pretty. I have visions of six new healthy, strong plants dancing in my head.
I’m working on growing and propagating succulents in thrillers, fillers and spillers categories to build some great combos. Can’t wait.
If you could choose one, what would be your superpower? When asked the question, so many people choose flying — peacefully gliding through the sky with a view for miles. And avoiding all traffic. All along, we’ve been surrounded by creatures that already have this superpower — birds. So I’m going to investigate.
I used to think birding was too slow and boring for me. A little like watching paint dry. And birds kinda creeped me out (thanks, Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock), but I’m trying to get over it.
I’ve already seen some pretty interesting color variations this summer and now that it’s finally cold, I’m going to need something to tide me over until March or April. So here’s how I’ve started my first winter of birdwatching.
Bird feeder. First of all, we have a new bird feeder: the CedarWorks Plastic Squirrel-Resistant Hopper Bird Feeder. We’ve had it full and outside for about a week and still no birds. Maybe we have the wrong food for birds in our area. Could it be too close to our house?
Bird food. I sent my husband to the store for bird seed. He came back with this: Wild Blend Bird Seed. According to its description, this seed is good for blue jays and chickadees, and contains black oil sunflower seed, cracked corn and white millet. So far, no blue jays, no chickadees.
Birding webinars. Melissa Kitchen clued me in to some webinars on birds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They include guidance on feeding and identification. These are targeted at educators, but are sure to include some good information. Thanks, Melissa!
Bird seed stars. I pinned this one a few months ago. It seems like a really good project for kids, especially during winter. They are made of bird seed, gelatin and water — pretty simple and pretty cute. There are some trees in our backyard that are screaming out for these.
Now that I have the setup, what do I do? Keep a scorecard of how many of each bird I see and when? I can see myself getting competitive really quick.
So how will the birds look from my rear window? I’ll let you know.
