The Season Begins!

I'm finally able to move my plants outside, and so I did a lot of repotting and pruning.

These are the cuttings from the mother plant who needed a pruning badly.

Echeveria "Etna" and Kalanchoe luciae both beheaded and replanted.

Two new Aeoniums: "Mardi Gras" and arborium variegata? Also this container has the last of my good looking Kiwi, which has lost much of it's more delicate cream and pink colors.

Portulaca afra variegata and Crassula Springtime in a small arrangement.

Various cuttings from leggy succulents in my collection. Many of these I cannot identify.

Orphaned succulent leaves arranged neatly and ready for another round of propagation!

This is last year's succulent arrangement. It's been pruned down, and the bare spots filled in with new cuttings.

New Additions!

I went to the Austin East Succulents store again! I got three cuties: a String of Hearts, Euphorbia milii (of differing color from my current one), and a Kalanchoe blossfeldiana variegata!

Ceropegia woodia variegata "String of Hearts"

This little cutie I got 22 February 2016. I have never owned such a delicate plant, but I am hoping to take care of it well enough to see it grow some! I am told to keep it in bright indirect sunlight, and let the delicate root system have plenty of water without letting it sit in water.

Beautiful variegated plant!

Photo taken 22 February 2016

Euphorbia milii

I have two varieties of milii. The first one I got in 2014. It has small red flowers with tall thin branches. The other I purchased February 2016. The newer one has much larger peach colored flowers with a thicker trunk.

This is the small red flowered milii. The mother plant was growing too tall, so I pruned her back and stuck the cutting in the soil. I tried this once before and all the cuttings dried out. Hopefully I see more success this year! Photo taken February 2016.

This is the medium, peach colored milii. Photo taken February 2016

Conophytum bilobum

I got this Conophytum January 13, 2016 on a whim. It's a bit more difficult to take care of than I expected. It certainly doesn't want too much sun! I did that and it got wrinkly fast! It also doesn't like too much water either. One stem rotted at the bottom. I suppose I'm lucky it hasn't died yet!

Photo taken January 2016

Kalanchoe serrata

This plant was wonderful when I got it and quickly grew very tall. It dropped babies everywhere, and after a while I lost interest. After repotting the plants that were in the same container, I just decided to toss it out counting on a few babies surviving long enough to grow big like the mother plant. That's exactly what's happened in the first photo below.

A pint sized version of what the mother plant used to be like.

Photo taken January 2016

Portulaca afra variegata

I have purchased this guy once before and didn't have much success, but this little guy that I got in 2015, has been much more of a success.

Photo taken January 2016.

I recently repotted this guy with some crassula.

Adromischus cristatus

This guy I've had since the end of 2015. It is an interesting succulent that has thus far been easy to care for.

Photo taken January 2016

Flower spike February 2016

Blooming for about a month in May 2016.

Myrtillocactus geometrizans

I've had this guy since the beginning of 2014. It's a fairly slow grower, but has a beautiful blue green hue. The spines, although small, are very pointy and should be avoided! That's as it should be thought because when the skin of the plant is touched, the powdery substance rubs off, and the overall look of the plant becomes a bit diminished.

Photo taken January 2016.

Mammillaria plumosa

I must have bought this cactus from a big box store with just one mother plant on it, and over the years it has made many pups. A few I have separated, but only one has survived and started making pups of her own. She is also a frequent bloomer.

January 2016

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana

This beautiful kalanchoe is an almost constant bloomer as well as a prolific glower! I had to severely prune it back when the plant became infested with mealy bugs, but it is coming back.

Here she is on the day I got her in 2013.

A closeup of her beautiful sparkling orange flowers.

22 February 2016 I purchased a different variety of blossfeldiana! This one is a variegated one with striking leaves of green, white, and pink!

It looks as though it will be just as prolific a bloomer as my other blossfeldiana. I am hopeful that maybe one day I can plant the two together for an interesting pot of multicolor flowers and foliage.

Photo taken 22 February 2016

I got this blossfeldiana at the grocery store. She is a beautiful yellow double blossomed variety.

April 2016

Opuntia rufida minima

This is my adorable mini cinnamon cactus. I have had it for a couple years and it has not grown much. The paddles of this cactus are barely measurable in centimeters.

This photo was probably taken 2013.

Here she is after a couple years of growth! Still super tiny! She couldn't be much bigger than 2 inches tall, if that!

Photo taken March 2016

Kalanchoe tomentosa

I have two varieties of this plant. The regular brown tipped plant, and a variation called Chocolate Soldier, which is much darker.

Chocolate Soldier obtained 9/3/13

Photo taken 2 May 2016.

Obtained approximately 5/13

Kalanchoe luciae

I've had this plant for quite some time.  It keeps growing taller and taller, so I decided to try my hand at beheading! This plant already had two babies growing at the base of the stem, so I have high hopes that I will get a couple new plants. I'm not sure how the head will do though! I had to pull off (more like rip off!) many leaves to get enough stem to plant.

The beheaded top poking into some fresh soil. Feb 18, '16

The stem of the beheaded luciae has started to grow tons of babies on it!

Photo taken 6 March 2016