I know you are looking forward to that! Hard to imagine how the sempervivums make it through the winter. They'll be waking up soon but maybe not too soon if you get some more winter weather. Here in So. CA we have had exactly one rainstorm. It's really bad for trees, shrubs which need that good deep rain water.

I have a few unrooted cuttings which are sitting in dry mix outside. We've had a cold snap, so I won't water for quite some time.

Some of my community pots are slightly crowded, but I think they are ok for now. If I pot those plants individually, that makes more pots, something I'm trying to avoid.

As far as purchasing, I hope to do none but would like an echeveria purpusorum because it has a different look from most echies.

I'm going to chop my first ever adenium, see if the cutting will root. Oops, there's another pot!

Have fun planning, Rina! I know you have a lot to move outside too.

Harry

Looks like parts of Europe are getting some of the cold weather we had for so long. Our temps finally climbed up little, and are staying around 0*C - 5*C for now. Hope it doesn't change...

I like that wall! And the fish :)

Couldn't resist to repot couple of jades - they have been in same small pots for too long, and tipping over - good excuse to do it now :). One that has unusual bulbous growth, was taken out. I was thinking that there are 2 separate plants there, but found they are attached together. After all I decided to leave them as is, to see if the swollen part grows better. I'll do some pruning after roots are established - plant was just in front of the window whole winter long, and is etiolated. Here it is after repotting:

Close-up of the swollen trunk:

Rina - We've had a wet and cold winter. Snow falls, then it warms up and melts, then it all freezes and snows again...Right now it's been raining for the better part of 3 days. I am worried about a strawberry pot of Semps I purchased last year, it's not looking very good.

pluto

I was eager to see them after snow disappeared. Harry's look so good! - I think those are in ground. Most of mine are in relatively shallow pots comparing to strawberry pot. I like how those look, used to have one but it eventually broke (after too many winters outdoors...)

There may be some casualties, I am wondering if this one rotted in the center or will recover:

I lost few last year, after we had few days of continuous freezing rain, ice crust was about 1". Then it warmed up drastically overnight, and they were swimming in water - soil was still frozen solid and water wasn't draining. Hope you don't have same problem.

Thanks Rina; yes they are in the ground. The one potted up are much worse. Except this Jovibarba sobilifera. Whole winter outside in this pot and doing fine.

in that same pot Sedum angelina

Many of my in ground ones look very happy. I have in my 100lb doofus dog keeps stepping on that isn't looking good. The in ground sedum are putting out lots of new growth and looking happy. My shallow pot I've posted pictures of before isn't looking as happy, and the strawberry pot is bad. It's abplastic strawberry pot, and I suddenly realized while typing this that I'm not sure if there are drainage holes! Guess I should go check that out!

Hoping this cutting will grow - Senecio haworthii:

That's a bit a nasty one (here) Rina; does not root so easy.

I'm to soon, but can't help myself and made a few new bowls for the coming summer.

greetings. (snow and far under zero these days)

Harry

Than you.

Your plants look very good - I am inpatient too and have been repotting and taking few cuttings.

I thought that Senecio cutting may not grow - I have bigger plant this piece was broken off, and it is very slow, looks like it hardly grew in a year.

This may be next one: in same pot since 2013! and left to grow as it wanted to. I have taken few cuttings, but need repotting, maybe dividing (?) and major pruning:

Through the beginning of Feb. we were having the warmest winter on record-temps 10-20 above average. And very dry-an inch of snow in dec. and nothing in jan. Feb. has been colder-below average-and we are starting to see snow-first big storm of the season possible this weekend. Had to water semps a few times but now cold and dampish-yay.

More S. 'Oddity; - survived winter well in my zone over the Winter, in plastic pots, in spite of many sites listing them less hardy:

More hardy succulents outside, in pots - Spring must be close :)

Now showing in my patio: my semps in all their glory. Jovibarba did better than my semps.

Harry, what plant is in the 3rd picture in your series of 5? Is it something other than Sempervivum? I'm too warm for Semps.. Does that plant grow well in warmer climates?

It is a Semp, but I cannot tell right now which one. They do it for years very well in the garden. It is deep winter overhere (minus 10 C.), but they can have that.

aloebot

Most Sempervivums are listed for growing in z3 - z10. They are Alpine plants, and prefer to get some winter sleep and do not like high humidity. But I am sure you can grow them even in warm climates, perhaps in less sun than in colder regions.

More repotting: these were all potted in same pot, and for too long. They are in separate pots now:

(Sorry for 'duplicating' - I posted photos on this thread too )

ETA: just to make it clear that blinds are never closed - only for taking this photo against the sun...

Little off the subject: I didn't take off all dried-up blooms/inflos from jades. Many that were left on developed into stems and seem to be growing leaves. Here are just couple of them:

One growing off to side of new leaves/tip so it looks like 2 branches. Another is growing directly from the center, with new growth/new branches on each side. I am wondering if this is what happens with some infloes that do not dry up/fall off in wild? Maybe some of you in warm regions, having them in ground, know?

The semps are so amazing, Rina. I’ve always heard they survive harsh winters but while I’m originally a NY/CT-er, I’ve lived on the west coast for my entire gardening experience. I can’t imagine!

I have been splitting up my grouped jades too, like a madwoman. I felt like they had grown very little in the last year compared to previous years, in need of a root pruning and potting into their own pots. Yours look great - can’t wait to watch them grow!

This may be slightly OT...found this neglected jade and decided to pot it and 'resurrect' it :) There is more about this plant that has fallen behind plant shelveand was there for approx. 4mo, unnoticed...- IN THIS THREAD -

I trimmed most of the roots (could have taken all of them if needed) and potted it in very gritty mix. Photo below shows plant as found, with close up of very limp leaves and trunks:

Mix used to pot it:
Trimmed off dry roots:Potted in gritty mix, supported by few rocks and top-dressed with gravel:

I've had some plants survive weird things too, Rina. Like a K. tomentosa that spent an entire summer out of the pot, inside a cabinet and out on the deck.I had a gasteria leaf that got left out the whole winter and rooted! I got about 4 more plantlings from that one. And an adenium seed that got tossed into a bag along with used-up soil. Cleaning up four months later, I tossed the soil out into the garden and found it sprouted! It's a plant now.

Back on topic of spring....

But this box of cacti arrived!

...and do we get to see what is inside??? :)

Yes, Pagan, what exactly is in there??? The inquiring mind...

oh! sorry! okay, i'll open it now. brb

Pygmaeocereus biebii

Sulcorebutia rauschii violaceidermis

and I actually went back to get this one too because. Also a Sulcorebutia rauschii violaceidermis

Spring. ha!

Pagan, protect the Sulco if you put it outside. Every one I have tried outside has been attacked by birds or snails. It must look like a big berry to them.

They look like berries to me, too, aloebot. It's all about snow today but when I pot it up in pure pumice, will it be able to take summer rains? Roots look like haworthia roots, fleshy.

Nice! That Pygmaeocereus is one of my favourites. Interesting to look at, and beautiful, fragrant flowers! I am curious to see how your Sulco will fare. I have one grafted on Hylocereus, and I am planning to take a few offsets and try to establish them on their own roots this spring.

I knew I should have brought that pot of semps inside during all that rain. I think maybe 2 of these will make it. I bought a pot of oddity last summer, the 2 in ground died and the last little tiny baby was in this pot. Pretty sure it's a goner too.
I'm more mad at myself for not bringing them in when I thought I should. the strawberry pot I mentioned above is on shaky ground too.

Pluto

Are they in grittier mix? If so, they may recover. Too much water is worse than snow cover and cold. I have quite a few of Oddity pups that I potted into a plastic tub, with just mix of rit and perlite. They are still 'ratty' looking, but I think most will survive - I didn't think so since they were separated quite late:

Here are few I brought in about 10 days ago: they were all in one pot (not the tub above!), that was actually too deep and I added some soil to mostly gravel and perlite - just to see what will happen. Plants were mostly moldy, and all soil quite wet. I pulled all plants out. Few just fell apart or were too moldy like this one (in the compost bin now): I stuck rest of them into dry gritty mix, and here they are now:

So there is some hope!

They were in 50/50 potting mix of some sort and perlite. Maybe I will try to pull them out and inspect them...

I had maybe 30% of soil in there, or perhaps less. That white tub in first photo is 100% gritty, no soil at all. So I am even more convinced about gritty mix, which I always recommend...(I use 50/50 mix of grit & coarse perlite, and sometimes add 10-20% of turface (usually smaller amount). That is for potted succulents that have to overwinter indoors, but also for some potted hardy ones. I have few potted that have soil in a mix, like Sedum Autumn Joy or Purple Emperor, and they survive winters without damage in containers. There is always lots of grit and perlite in there, but these could have as much as 50% soil.

More P. afra cuttings:

And main plant divided:

This Agave victoriae-reginae/Agave ferdinandi regis has 'spring fever' too :) 2nd pup emerging, and plant is just about to burst out of the plastic pot - or break it:

Here is the 1st pup and roots that want to escape...Beautiful gift from Jeff :)

I went semp hunting in the yard today.

Still too cold to do anything but I did pluck this one out of that pot above because its weirdness was crowding stuff out. So, cleaned up and potted, just for kicks. No, it's not a special plant, semps do this all the time. I'll probably just pop it in the ground somewhere with rolling space.

Some sedum.

Cool plant, special or not.

Sometimes it snows in April

Pagan

I have lots of semps, but never had one with a 'trunk'...

This is April 8th...well after 1st day of Spring -:(

I think I made mistake by trying to jump-start these - they are in cool breezeway - temps down o 1 or 2*C overnight. but already grew too much. I think they will bloom before I can put them outdoors:

Back to succulents:

Agave ferdinandi-regis out of old pot, ready for bigger digs (and there is 3rd offsets growing too :)

Repotted couple of Euphorbias (possibly decaryi v. spirosticha)- nice, fleshy roots:

Been busy today, moved my Echeveria Imbricata to a new home as it was offsetting like crazy and bursting out of the small clay pot it was living in. It now has plenty of room to spread out and should form a nice clump.

Also I noticed that all is not lost with my Orostachys boehmeri. It was bursting from the planter below last year but every single branch produced a flower so I feared the worse. I looked at this a couple of months ago and there was no sign of anything living and I nearly trashed it. But looking today there are signs of life! I wonder if these new shoots are growing from seeds??

I believe I can see stem/rhizome below the soil line where they are sprouting but I could be mistaken!

Andrew

I don't have Orostachys, just read about it. There are supposedly 12 species, some say up to 30. Some produce offsets, others will propagate by seeds only. And they hybridize easily. So you may have them growing from the seeds. Good luck - hope they grow and multiply :) Pls. post again when they get bigger. Good that you left container as it was.

Hi Rina

You asked to see another photo of my recovering Orostachys when it grew bigger, here it is...