Succulent Collection and Nursery Tour

So James, look we're not doing a full nursery tour today but we are looking at those plants here because I think it's really interesting. When you come into the nursery you see plants in different situations, in different pots, in different groupings and now this is Echeveria elegans. Elegans yeah, that's a really common everyday plant but when you stress it in winter it gets beautiful pink tips and you don't often see it like this in a pot. If we sell this in in the nursery pot down here it's just really a greeny blue one and you rarely see it that well coloured up and don't forget it is winter so it goes to show even really plain succulents look fabulous in winter. And how old would this pot be? That'd be five years old, six years old. Using elegans you could use any of these sort of smaller growing. Yeah definitely. In fact just a whole range of plants really, it doesn't have to be Echeverias. Thank you for all sorts of things. And we move across and we have a look at this one. Yeah this is cotyledon, this is the bears paw cotyledon and you see like it's stressed right it's been pushed hard dark claws on it. If you grow this in the shade they're just green you hardly ever see might be a couple of spots on there so that's the beauty of seeing you know established all the plants in a nursery because you actually sort of see what can come of them if you know how to grow them. And if you're looking for ideas we've got a mixed dish here. What's the mixed bowl? And there's some really common things in here you know but they look fabulous. Hanging baskets I like these. Yep. Seed them. That's looking great. Yeah ripsalis here. So this is a ripsalis? Yep ripsalis great great the hanging basket grows really quite big and luscious does probably need a bit more shade you know than the really really full sun. And if we move around here and there's a few really interesting little plants here this one here. Yeah this is an unusual crassula this one this is one I collected from someone a long time ago it's really miniature but it's actually more hanging basket style and if you look at this we've got it planted in a tall pot so it really hangs you see it's just finished flowering but still a few flowers left on here but really great colour in winter really good dark red line around the leaves. Again if we just move down to this one here now this is a crassula perforata which is the same as the other same species but a bigger version so different districts in parts of South Africa have different styles or versions of perforata and here we would have oh six or seven different types of perforata easily. There's another one over there too Joe that's in more flower different shaped leaf and quite large so this is be used as a prostrate hanging over a rock wall you know for outdoor landscaping so if you came here you might only see a little one in a pot but when you see a couple of big specimens like that you start to realize oh I could use that over the rock wall. And next to it that's another crassula that's ovata but this is what we're going to call the sort of atomic hybrids these plants have been x-rayed and it's a bit of a process but they've varied a lot from the original plant. We might come back for a separate video on crassula ovata because these ones are really highly colored they're beautiful. So here's another interesting plant yeah this is Echeveria they're called trumpet pinky I believe it came from Echeveria pinky but it's a deformed leaf which you've been able to propagate you see the little perfect trumpets and just really unusual really odd shape and it goes really bright pink in winter and you see younger more vigorous leaves and a bit more flat as they get a bit older they form a really cute little trumpet. So this is how you buy the plants? Yeah this is how you buy them. So it's like one of two heads multi-headed or single-headed we always label our plants and it's Graptoveria pink ruby yep okay and and over here we've got another one and this is a new one called lovely rose and if we take these three plants we can pot them up individually or we can put them into a mass display let's take a look this is basically these three plants there's three plants there's one or two other ones in there but um a little bit of that Graptoveria there but look basically all that is is just a mass planting of this this gets multi-headed so a whole heap of these will play around this specimen here it would be three years old. Okay and how many plants would you put in there originally? 20. So this is where you can go with your succulent collection individual display plants or something like that would have looked pretty packed in there with about 20 to 25 plants yes we overdo it a little bit and it makes a really good display quick leaf. Frank Reynolds James and this is a bowl that's been potted up recently quite recently and it's just a whole bowl of them it'll make a giant cluster and you know a nice bit of gravel yep so there's lots of things you can do with these succulents just to make them look good and it's not that difficult you can do them any way you like singles multiples all sorts so this is Sedum rubroticum and this is it in winter where it's gone really purple a special variety called red berry red berry miniature half the size fraction of the size of the other one look at the color absolutely superb and in summertime this is going to be green green with red tips there's more information and links to a whole range of resources in the notes below the video stay tuned we'll be back with an in-depth nursery tour looking at some of the rarer plants in James's collection plus various ways to present your succulents subscribe to the youtube channel for regular updates on a whole range of succulents and indeed a whole range of garden plants and as always good luck with your gardening