My succulents are thriving ...

Hiya everyone

Our weather is looking a lot more Spring like & the jobs are just waiting to be done after our long, grey, wet winter.

One of the most pressing jobs seems to be the succulents that grow in my conservatory at home. It is not heated in winter, but it is light & bright & the succulents thrive, so much so that they keep outgrowing their pots.

They were repotted exactly a year ago - how can they outgrow & multiply so quickly?

I had popped to Ikea with a friend & saw these indoor Bittergurka planters - they should be able to sit on the window sills so I purchased 3 of them.

Once home, while the sun was out, it was time once again to repot these rampant succulents.

Some of the extras were potted up in these cute tin containers for a friend ...

The aloe vera is just loving the conditions - it was gifted by a friend - a single plant that keeps multiplying - I need to use it more for medicinal purposes

The gifted plants look happy & healthy & will soon be on their way to their new home.

An afternoon  well spent.  Thank you for popping by, I hope you are keeping on top of all your seasonal jobs too.

Dee ~💕~

Repotting the conservatory succulents

Hi everyone

Garden jobs are taking a lot of time but they are needed.  We have some low maintenance pots of succulents in our observatory where they love the summer heat & tolerate the cold winter temperatures.

However, they have outgrown their pots & attention was urgently needed.  I recently had them out but had bought the wrong potting soil which expanded & I didn't pot them on enough ...

This was my previous effort but in vain as I didn't repot all the little ones from the bases of the plants.

 This morning, I took advantage of the bright but crisp weather to do the job again by mixing the two kinds of potting soil & by thinning them out a lot more by removing the little ones or the 'pups' as they are called. The little gnomes were a gift from little visitors & they look right in the succulent pots.

This is an additional pot - I still need to find another shallow ceramic planter that will fit in the IKEA ones so the red container is just a temporary home for all these little ones ...

Another that is repotted from a small pot & it now has a bit of space, surrounded by little plants ..

This one takes up a whole planter on its own ...

Six of the previous ones are repotted individually in to pots that are contained in the 2 favourite IKEA planter troughs with their pretty metal work ...

The succulents are repotted properly this time - they look less cramped now in their individual pots & the round containers ...

My Aloe Vera was a gift from my friend Kathy some years back when she split hers - it has a temporary space in a terracotta pot until I can find a glazed pot for it. The medicinal properties of it are alluring though I confess to not using it as much as I should.

These succulents seem to be thriving & multiplying all the time, however, our Midlands weather is too cold for them to be outdoors. They are taking up a lot of space but with the air cleaning properties of the Aloe Vera, our conservatory is the place to go to have clean air ...

Have a lovely week everyone & thank you for stopping by & taking time to read & comment.
Dee ~♥~