Hi Rina,

I have a few sempervivum in the black pot, but not all of them. For example the one on the right is a sinocrassula yunnanensis too small still.

I'm just waiting for them to get bigger and I'll move them to proper individual pot as the others plants.

I've been actually thinking about putting most of my sempervivum outside as you said. I've noticed that they are a very resilient type of plant and they don't easily rot as the others, so I'll give them a go and I'll plant them outside, along side with several types of sedum.

WOW! Beautiful collection, very nice!

Nice collection in a short time.

enjoy :)

Roger

Yes, they are very hardy (to z3 and some even lower). They really look their best when grown outdoors. I grow them in containers and in ground. They look good with some trailing type of (hardy) sedum.

They really look great on the windowsill! I love the extra wide windowsills in the UK.

WOW you got bit by the bug hard!!!

Beautiful and all very well kept. You're lucky your girlfriend isn't going to kill you for the shear volume of plants no matter what color the trays are. :-)

I think most of us have others in our lives that have to be tolerant and they may have a hard time understanding what the attraction is.

WOW!!!nice collection you have there and very well kept too.

Your collection is so beautiful! I hope I will have a collection as big and nice as yours one day.

Amazing collection, wow!

I love the tray idea for easy mass transportation. Also jealous of those big windowsills :D

Great collection! I really enjoyed your pics.

Hello fellow UK'er! Nice collection of plants you have got there. Where do you buy them all form, have you a favourite supplier, of are they 'random' purchases? Yes, you do need a greenhouse don't you?

With regard to our wide windowsills...it's because the majority, if not all of our homes are built with double skins, i.e. two layers of bricks, or one brick and the inner one with breeze blocks, or stone walls that can be over 2ft thick in some instances. The double skins have a gap between for insulation in new homes or damp prevention in older ones....hence the need for wide sills! Sorry to go OT Roger!

Gill

Cheers guys!

@Gil, Hi there! :)

I buy them from everywhere were I see interesting succulents, mostly from plant nurseries near by, but recently I've recently started to buy online from specialised cactus and succulent nurseries where I can find ones that I don't have already.

What I like the most is to grow them by cuttings or leaves and they root so well in these windowsills!

I have almost all IDs from my succulents with exception of some examples that I'll probably ask here if I can't find it by myself.

The other succulents, the cacti, I didn't even started to catalogue them because I know that it's going to be a headache to find them all out! But I'll do it soon.

This has been an amazing hobby that I found and I'm loving it. I'm an IT guy, so you can imagine the sudden difference in how I pass my free time since I've started with these plants. Haha! :)

BTW I'm very interested in exchanging all kinds of Succulents cuttings or leaves. It would be great!

Cheers.

Here are the trays taken out to water (not painted yet!)

And a few plants I bought today! :)

They will be soo in their normal pots as the others.

Liking those new Mesemb additions. =)

I can relate with your excitement - before last year my collection was fairly limited and now it looks like yours! How many are you up to now? Looks to be over 100.

It's a pretty big learning curve with so many different species with different care - it's a big (ongoing) accomplishment to keep them going and doing well.

I love them.. I've just run out of room for them :(

What is this one?

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Hi Aakajx,

Sorry for the late reply.

Remember when I said I still didn't have yet a list of my cactus? That plant is one of them.

In fact it doesn't have spikes at all and probably it's not considered a cactus, but I still need to find out what is it.

Later on I'll post here a better picture :)