Laurent, I'm going to be in Marseille and Monaco next week - any chance of meeting up? I'm intending to be at the Jardin Exotique - let's meet if we can! And that plant is tres fantastique!

Hi Laurent

beautiful plant, does that plant have a blue/green color or is that my monitor

Richard

Beautiful pictures! Sorry you have health problems, but thanks for posting.

Thank you all !

Cactusmcharris, when will you visit the succulents garden in Monaco ?

Richard, the plant is gray/blue with white powder on the surface (the powder usually disappears with the intense november rains).

Beautiful!

Laurent,

Wednesday, September 16th. I've hopefully arranged it so that the director of the Garden (or his assistant) will give us a tour and perhaps some behind-the-scenes stuff. That's the only activity so far that we have for Monaco. I hope you can join us! Barring that unfortunacy, what garden(s) should we see if we're there only 8 hours?

Jeff

Laurent, your photos are very, very nice and that cotyledon is absolutely stunning. Thank you for sharing and take very good care of yourself.

Jeff, I will be working on wednesday.

Very close to Monaco there is the biggest private botanical garden in the world : Jardin botanique les Cèdres https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_botanique_%22Les_C%C3%A8dres%22 You must see it ! Visits by appointment only.

There is a succulent garden in Eze, near Monaco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_botanique_d'%C3%88ze

There are 3 very different botanical gardens in Menton (a few minutes from Monaco)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_Serre_de_la_Madone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_botanique_exotique_de_Menton

http://www.menton.com/pages-gb/jardins-serena.html (I think this one is by appointment, not sure)

Just a few minutes from Monaco, at the french-italian border you must visit the Hanbury garden, it's beautiful : http://www.giardinihanbury.com/en/

In Nice, in front of the airport, you can visit the Parc Phoenix with several tropical and subtropical greenhouses : (click the 3 red circles on the little map, on the left, you'll see the different areas of the park and inside the biggest greenhouse ) http://www.parc-phoenix.org/visite_virtuelle/entree.swf

At the french-italian border (italian side) you can visit a huge nursery named Cactusmania, it's specialized in succulents. Many greenhouses. It's very impressive https://www.google.fr/search?q=cactusmania+ventimiglia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIm-DwhKrkxwIVCOsUCh3YEgDO&biw=1112&bih=641

Hi Laurent, I am very happy to see your variegated plants again (since you put it down from flickr). I am looking forward for all your pictures.

Amazing cotyledon.Wow.

Thank you, Laurent.

Laurent- thank you for posting! What are the plants on the right side of the first picture? The three rosettes, are they echeveria?

Neil, aren't you talking about the 2d photo ? The 3 white rosettes on the right are Echeveria prolifica variegata.

Laurent- It is obvious i cannot count to the number 2. Thank you for pointing that out to the entire world! hahah. Yes, those are the ones that I meant to ask about : ) Beautiful plants! I guess that they are full size in the picture?

Neil, no, they are not full size. They are just offsets of the central rosette (partly visible on the last photo). When a rosette of E. prolifica is mature it produces many offsets.

The variegated form grows more slowly and is summer-dormant. I will post nice photos after the autumn rains, it will look much better ;)

The non-variegated form is a super-fast grower that can be "invasive" in a community pot :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/manue64/2769053108

http://www.google.fr/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arreesucculentes.com%2F96-thickbox_default%2Fecheveria-prolifica.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arreesucculentes.com%2Fecheveria%2F104-echeveria-prolifica.html&h=600&w=600&tbnid=ayVoWyxar2mBTM%3A&docid=hSpRM9dzSmpIAM&ei=dK7uVdO1Hcj4aJDfk7AB&tbm=isch&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=1469&page=1&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=0CEgQrQMwDWoVChMI07_j65PnxwIVSDwaCh2Q7wQW

Thanks! Laurent

Are we permitted to speak (type) in French on GardenWeb/Houzz forums? Sapristi!

Lol Neil ! Sapristi is a very old-fashionned expression, rarely used here.

Eye know! lol

Laurent,

Thank you very much for the information and the links - they make me wish I had several weeks, instead of just over ten hours, to spend in the area. I'm also going with someone who's not particularly a plant person (such as we are), so I have to limit the number of gardens in a day to about one (which two and three are, in a manner of speaking). It's too bad we won't have a chance to meet this time, but there will be another, I trust. At any rate, the places you listed are such that I will try to go to at least one more, aside from our planned visit to the Jardin Exotique. And I looked up 'saprisiti' - good heavens!

Hi all !

Here is my variegated Aeonium 'Zwartkop'.

It's a very rare and very slow growing cultivar with a seasonnal variegation.

It is black and dormant in summer and very variegated in winter. My 23 cm plant is 8 or 9 years old. It's not the US hybrid Aeonium 'Mardi Gras' (I grow both plants).

I post photos taken between july and now, I will post more photos until next summer.

Laurent

This Aeonium is beautiful - Thank you for posting photos, great show! Great to see the change.

All your plants are beautiful.

Rina

A not yet identified variegated succulent (may be a xGraptoveria). It's growing fast and becoming huge now. It turns pink in winter.

Stunning plants!

I love seeing progress pictures. Thanks Laurent. Your plants are all beautiful.

What Manny said...

It's great how you enjoy your plants, Laurent. They are love-worthy.

Marguerite, every morning the first thing I do is admiring all of them lol.

Why, Laurent, what a coincidence, every morning I do that too :)

Outstanding!!! I always enjoy seeing your beauties, thank you.

Thanks again, Laurent. You cheer us all up.