Succulent care, Zen style: colorful even in summer

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Thanks to the author [Ms. Yin] for theoriginal submissionsharing

Submission date: May 26, 2018

Edited and compiled by: Baike Jun

Location: Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province

I started getting into this in the winter of 2017. Although I was a beginner, I had built up quite a bit of theoretical knowledge. At first I also took some detours and bought a lot of succulents that I stopped liking after a while, from ordinary common succulents to Yunnan succulents to Korean-imported succulents. The same went for pots. At first I did not understand and bought a lot of non-breathable ceramic pots, and later after joining a succulent lovers' group I learned about the relatively famous Jingdezhen coarse pottery pots and bought a great many, and later I started buying premium Korean pots, Apple Tree, hue, Huarui, Provence. I feel that matching pots and succulents is indeed a technical job, and it requires accumulated good taste to choose.

From the peak of more than 400 pots at the beginning, to now having gradually passed on quite a few to other succulent lovers, it is now stable at around 200 pots. I think the most important thing in growing succulents is to find your own style and choose the varieties you like best. For example, I rather like the Echeveria agavoides series, grand and beautiful, and even in the vegetable-colored summer they still do not lose their high visual appeal.

I bought an outdoor open-air three-tier locking flower rack on Taobao and put it outside the yard for open-air growing. From the beginning when the premium ones were placed on the first tier, to now all three tiers are full.

My favorite pot of Maria, still beautiful in this weather. I chose a large white-light pot to match it, very practical.

Korean-imported orange Echeveria agavoides

The Armstrong I like

Two beautiful pots of Crassula 'Lady Fingers' and Pamela clusters

The tough and easy-to-grow Dudleya edulis 'Thumb', recently fattened up from the rain

The beautiful Nana's hook when I first bought it

The high-appeal kusu Echeveria agavoides

The Oro that has hardly faded

Jelly ice jade, still this color in June

All of them are at full visual appeal

The Berkeley variegata I like, easy to grow and beautiful

For soil I mainly buy ready-made soil, with more than 80% grit. For the bottom layer I use large maifan stone, and for top dressing I use all qiuqiu soil, and the effect is still quite good. In spring I buried all of them with little purple medicine or little white medicine. In this weather in the free-shipping area they have basically started to cut off water, but it is not a true cutoff, because the succulents cannot take it, so on cool, windy evenings I water a little. In spring it was basically a thorough watering once a week to promote growth, and I could add a bit of Meinenglu and sterilizing medicine. I basically bought imported ready-made products for insecticide and fungicide too. Just spray regularly according to the instructions. Pest prevention and sterilization basically depend on advance prevention.

Recently I have become obsessed with Aizoaceae, and fell in love with small Conophytum and Lithops, so here are some recent favorites.

Large peach and ruby, plus bulb and Laden

The high-appeal peach and Laden

My favorite is the European-version purple smoke in the middle

European-version purple smoke and purple Fulai

Cute large campanulata

The adorable 514 pig trotter cluster

Small campanulata assorted plate and two fuzzy ones

From pursuing quantity and varieties to now liking premium ones, my own style has basically stabilized. Growing succulents also needs a Zen attitude. Although many will turn vegetable-colored or die in summer, constantly accumulating experience, reducing losses and controlled growing is the real way. In summer you can also have a beautiful scenic line.

The high-appeal white moon shadow cluster

The still plump and cute Cotyledon orbiculata 'Ping Pong' in this weather

The white chrysanthemum that got a bit too much growth-promoting water in spring, and got a little out of control. I will do controlled growing again in autumn.

Monroe, also very beautiful in summer. In autumn I plan to get a few more clusters.

Ending with my favorite white bear

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