The succulent courtyard is gradually coming into its own, enjoying succulents, tea and sunshine with endless delight

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Location: Yixing, Jiangsu

In a year and a half, the succulent courtyard has gradually come into its own. Summer is about to arrive, and succulent growers generally feel slightly anxious, worrying that their succulents might die at any moment. Fortunately, after several summers, I have accumulated some experience in getting succulents through the summer.

I once bought 5 temperature and humidity data loggers on Taobao to compare the temperature and humidity changes in different locations: inside the house, under direct sunlight, under shade netting, under the eaves, inside the sunroom, and so on. I went to Silky Latte's post to see how her thousands of succulents get through the summer. Our locations are about the same, so I can learn directly from her.

Last year, during a sustained stretch of high temperatures above 40 degrees, the vast majority of the succulents successfully made it through the summer. Succulents that have experienced summer become beautiful to a new level, and they will stay with us for a long time.

In spring and autumn, they are all grown fully outdoors, and the succulents live off the sky, with no need for watering or fertilizing. Occasionally they get a minor illness, such as mealybug infestation or black spot, but these are generally chronic conditions that can be prevented and treated, not as devastating as summer black rot.

In winter, the lowest temperature reaches minus 9 degrees, and the succulents spend the winter beautifully in the sunroom, not a single one dies, so I have also fallen in love with winter.

I invite my besties to enjoy the succulents, drink tea and bask in the sun to their hearts' content. Weekend routine: removing dead leaves, taking photos, and posting all kinds of updates on WeChat Moments, never tiring of it.

The Aeonium series shows different states throughout the four seasons, dignified and imposing, loved by everyone. This purple velvet one counts as an elder-level plant, and in the height of summer its dormant state will be even more beautiful.

Green velvet. For Aeonium soil mix, I use half gritty soil. In summer, I place them in a cool spot with shade, shelter from rain and good ventilation, with a few hours of light every morning, and once a week after 9 p.m. I water half a ring along the pot wall. More than a dozen Aeoniums did not die, an outstanding performance.

This one was originally the most beautiful one in the courtyard. One day it was blown by a strong wind into the fish pond and broke more than a dozen heads, which depressed me for several days. When I replanted it, I found the root system was well developed and had filled the entire pot, so it seems the soil mix is still quite good. Next year I need to prepare some larger pots for repotting. The more than a dozen broken branches have already been shared with several besties, and they are surviving quite well.

Purple velvet

Aeonium 'Sunburst'

Halloween, beginning to go dormant

Copper pot Aeonium

A table full of beautiful succulents

Peach egg, a difficult one to get through summer

Golden Maria

Xiuyan. Early last summer I accompanied my child to Beijing. The weather was a bit hot, so some succulents were covered with shade netting. As a result, when I came back I found they had grown very tall and leggy, so I had to strip off the leaves. Now after some care they have become beautiful again.

Takasago no Okina, commonly known as big cabbage. When I bought it and brought it home, it was severely damaged. The shop owner readily refunded the money and also urged me not to throw it away. After removing the outer leaves and planting it, a year later it had grown this beautiful.

Champagne

Peach

Baby fingers, also a difficult one to get through summer.

Perfume, the other two pots were given to two besties, but they failed to get through summer and departed

Bairimei, has not yet been grown to its most beautiful state.

Moran

Sufei duck

Jiansi Nuowa

Blue surprise, pink and pretty.

Dudleya edulis fairy cup, with a kind of wild beauty.

A pot of lilac

Water lily

Blood-red Romeo

Opalina, performed outstandingly last summer, extremely beautiful in state.

Variegated string of pearls

Xiaomi star, peach

Orange Monroe, after growing it, it looks a bit like Hibiscus snow lotus

Mustang Dongyun

Three-headed orange Monroe, relatively suited to the climate here in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, recommended to grow more of them

Fiona

TP

Ice plum

Snow domain

Xiangfu lotus, suffered a disaster last summer and has not been grown back to its original state.

Dongyun

Lipstick

Pollyanna, finally remembered it.

Jade dish, this is a picture from earlier. Later it was nibbled quite a bit by snails. After rain, snails like to come out of the soil and nibble on succulents. At first I thought snails were quite cute when I saw them, but I never expected they were here to cause damage, so I called in my dad, who was born an agricultural technician, to deal with them

Mingyue

The Aeoniums

Romeo and Huayueye

Hera

Egg rose, it was bent on blooming. Even after pinching off the flower stalk and beheading it, it could not be stopped, and it bloomed defiantly until it exhausted its life.

The courtyard is semi-open. A while ago my child said they often heard the sound of passersby taking photos, and the property manager and the security guards would also stop to look when patrolling past the courtyard. It seems there are quite a lot of people who like succulents, and of course there are also people who find it very strange. One day an elderly man saw me busy and came over to strike up a conversation:

Q: Are you growing them to sell?

A: No;

Q: Can you eat them?

A: No;

Q: Can they be used as medicine?

A: No;

Q: Then what are they for?

A: ......

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