Beautiful! I love them but have trouble growing them. My A. Lilypad is the only one that has done well for me. It's starting to bloom for the first time.

All of these are in San Diego. I've already posted photos of my own in the "Blooms" threads.

My favourite four - three of them I used to grow, and those plants and their progeny are still in San Diego. In no particular order (all pics taken from the Web):

The most beautiful, IMO, especially out of flower - Aeonium (arboreum v.) rubrolineatum. The heads would, in the summer of their hibernation, get tightened up into purple discs about 3" wide.

___________________________________________________________________________Aeonium smithii, the most tempermental for me - ANY summer water (unlike the others, which tolerated it) would cause the death knell for this plant. I don't know if you can extrapolate that it comes from the driest of the Canary Islands from that....I'll have to look into it.

___________________________________________________________________________Aeonium lindleyii - the ethnobotanical prophylactic for Euphorbia sap burns:

___________________________________________________________________________And I'm afraid I'm a little desensitized to yellow Aeonium flowers, having seen so many every year for nearly twenty years. They're pretty, but Aeonium nobilie's flowers are prettier. Of course, that spells the eventual death of the flowering head,.

Can't wait to get these back outside next month.

Kiwi

I think this is an aeonium

Unknown from an Oakland sidewalk

My one and only Aeonium... 'Mardi Gras'

Ooooh! I like Mardi Gras! That's a dandy, SLD.

I found out the hard way that Aeoniums do not like my summers. I had removed these from the sun, but the one on the left did not like the heat and humidity. The leaves fell off and it never recovered.

So I have found they will survive if I bring them inside for the summer. The above picture is when they were headed out for the winter. And this is how nicely the plant on the right colored up. The leaves flattened out, too.

Here's another view showing a couple of newer heads.
I think I'll keep my eye out for another Aeonium or two!

Inside the house must be more arid than outside, Crenda.

Absolutely, Socks. The AC dries out the air, and that a good thing for us - me and the plants.

So not fair! I wish I could grow these in Florida :( I live in Aeonium Hell lol.

Amazing photos!

You could grow them, if you grew them like Crenda did (and brought them inside in the summer), Jasmine.

I love aeoniums! They are so easy to grow. I think they're easy than Echeverias. Everybody's look so pretty! P.S.: 30 days till spring. (IF it shows up, unlike l.y.!!!) I'm getting my sleep bank stored up now. LOL let the gardening games begin!

I will get some pictures up if it ever stops raining here. Jeff, I think your #1 and #4 are two of my favorites also. I have some plants that look like #1 in the spring. Right now they are very green with not enough stress to make the colors. I have not been able to get the I.D. pinned down. There are not a lot of pictures with its particular look. I guess we might be in the minority in favoring this.

Bill, the colours on that one don't leave. I can connect you with someone who has it (you can trade a cutting of something to her for it). I don't mind being in the moral minority, or was that the oral trajectory?

Jeff, please do!

Thank you everyone. I’m enjoying the photos. Mardi Gras is gorgeous!

Last summer I stuck some cuttings in the center of this rotting stump. They seem to be doing OK. The green Aeonium is front and center.

Bill, look at your FB messages - The Prettiest Aeonium (Ever) is within your grasp (and there are a few more months to grow it before it sleeps).

Maybe I might try it. If I brought them in, I would have to use artificial lighting because we have those deep southern porches which really limits how much light gets in the windows..good for keeping cooler, bad for houseplants lol.

I do grow a lot of hanging cacti & succulents under the porch eaves where they stay dry and the light is bright and slanted. Its still humid &hot in the summer, though , so I don't know if I could grow the adeniums that way. I might try sometime when I feel like killing one lol.

sjn,

I think you might be overlooking something - Aeoniums are dormant in the summer, so you (1) won't be watering them and (2) they won't need much light.

Adeniums are tropical succulents. As long as they have great drainage, they'd do fabulously well in your summers as long as they have full sun. The rains and the humidity are just want they want, along with the sun and heat, at that time of the year.

That sounds really good. I think I will try a few and see what happens. So do you think I could get away with putting them on the patio in indirect light (covered roof) in the summer or the cooler, drier house?

Which are easiest to grow/more tolerant of my conditions or are tgey pretty much all the same?

Since you have a fellow grower in similar circumstances, I'm going to wait until Crenda has had a chance to respond. Maybe reach out to her in case she doesn't see this thread.

Here is A. 'kiwi. This winter and last spring.

This is a selection called A. decorum 'Berry Nice' this winter and last spring.

I did not realize that the best color comes in the spring. I am looking forward to that for the kiwis. Thanks for the info.

sultry_jasmine_nights - what a name! That sure conjures up a pleasant image!

I don't know if you get the horrible humidity that most of Florida enjoys during the rainy summers, but I'm sure you get enough. I'm in Cape Coral on the Gulf. We rarely get in the 100s, but high 90s is the norm. And not as much breeze as some areas get, either. I have been known to crank up the ceiling fans on the lanai to help with air circulation for my plants.

I watch the temperature and bring my Aeoniums inside when it is consistently in the high 80s - or if the rains start. These 2 plants were moved out of the sun and onto the lanai. It was still too hot and humid.

Eventually all the leaves fell off and neither plant recovered. Now I bring them inside. I have large windows across the back of my house - the south side. So my Aeoniums can get good sunlight (as good as the newer efficient windows will allow) while inside. So I do water mine, but not often. Probably once, maybe twice a month. The AC will dry them out.

I would try one plant on the porch and see how it goes. Watch it like a hawk and get it out of the humidity and heat as soon as things look iffy - perhaps in mid-June, but most likely by July. Aeoniums are NOT easy to grow in Florida, and neither are Echeveria, but with a few tricks we can do it.

Feel free to contact me at "my name" at aol.

Hi Crenda, thank you for the reply. Our conditions sound similar and I can certainly find your cultural instructions useful.

My s/n was because I grow tons of jasmine and night blooming plants :)

I am right outside of the Jax area. In a rural residential area (farms).

It rains most days in the summer, at least enough to steam it up and make it extra miserable lol. Mid to high 90's is the norm here, every once in a while 100F. Sounds like our summers are similar.

No real breeze unless storms count. I am near 2 rivers and the coast but not close enough for a nice ocean breeze.

Winter- mid spring is usually dry (not this year though) we normally get at least a few hard freezes between Dec and March (not this year). I have a greenhouse I keep up mid Dec- March 1st for my true tropicals.

I read somewhere, that one should choose tropical varieties of adeniums if they live in a hot humid climate. Is there really any such thing or are they all pretty much the same?

~Sjn

Beautiful pix everybody, Thanks for a lovely show, I especially the variety of colors. I'm partial to variegates, so those green & white variegates really speak to me. Found one in Manhattan the other night, literally on the sidewalk among other C&S, just waiting for me.

Small but lovely, my little charmer.

Succulents under grow light

Wow, all so beautiful everyone!

Here’s some from my visit to California.

Small Kiwi leaves

Suncup in 3" pot

Jeff, great shot of the kiwi. I like it because they stay small. Suncup is nice.

Thanks socks. I got cuttings of the Kiwi last summer. They're already getting very long stems. Rather high maintenance for me, but the colors are really nice under a lot of light.

Here are a couple more 'now and thens'.

This one makes a nice mound. It is not as leggy as many others get. The green is now post rain.

The difference is not as dramatic on this large headed variety. In late spring it is more grey and the red is more pronounced.

atropurpureum.

atro. v. swartzkopf.

This one is a little harder for me to root than most.

I don't know the name.

haworthioides.

I like this one in both seasons. Maybe I like the red better because I have other plants that get dark.

I need to get this one in the ground to see if it will grow a little stronger.

All very nice! Did not think I would need to ever dive into the aeonium space till this thread came up, thanks guys!!!

Not much to show right now besides a very green A kiwi, an A haworthii (maybe, not sure) and A tabuliforme. Grown from seeds and that should take off soon for some.

Aeonium balsamferum, a pleasantly scented one!

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