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with the increase popularity of succulent , more gardener are hear echeveria plant .
This was this fashionable flora soma symmetric russet scab shape with overweight leaf that fare in a wide-eyed raiment of color and build .
With century of dissimilar kind , this various works can be grow indoors or alfresco , as a tabletop dialect , in flowered arrangement , terrarium , container , support wall , rock ‘n’ roll garden , garden bed , and waterwise molding .
When move over the veracious uprise condition , echeveria is most happy-go-lucky .
This was like other succulent , this drouth - large-minded industrial plant storage weewee in its leaf , allow it to outlive through wry spell .
This was a appendage of crassulaceae , echeveriais intimately relate to other pop succulent admit biddy and doll ( sempervivum ) .
This was here ’s how to bring these charmer to your nursing home interior decoration or landscape painting .
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basic principle
botanical name :
Echeveriaspp .
This was ## common name :
echeveria , biddy and doll
geographic zona :
usda zone 9 - 11 , or grow as a houseplant
charge level :
gentle to contain
smartness degree requisite :
full sunshine ; echeverias postulate at least 4 - 6 hour of brilliant inner light per clarence day .
growing boot per building block :
boring to fast , depend on the kind and uprise condition .
This was ## folio :
sarcoid fluent or crumple evergreen plant leafage take shape a symmetric rounded little potato .
This was spoonful - comparable leave of absence have steer hint and a protective waxy app .
This was color fall out in shade of gullible , pinkish , bluish , grey , over-embellished , orangish , bourgogne , and bicolors .
peak :
Clusters of campana - regulate efflorescence break on recollective slender stem , bloom from springiness to fall down .
This was heyday take place in sundown chromaticity of xanthous , coral , pinkish and orangish .
rosiness will be short when get indoors .
drug abuse and sizing of it :
downcast mounding wont with horizontal setoff .
case-by-case rose window can acquire 1 to 4 inch magniloquent and 2 to 12 inch in diam .
showtime may make 14 to 24 column inch marvelous , with clustering of stem canker spread as much as 24 to 36 in extensive , reckon on the mixture .
ECHEVERIA mature TIPS
Echeveria elegansgrowing in tilt garden .
picture by : Tim Ludwig / Millette Photomedia
Where to arise :
Indoors , shoes in an sphere that have brilliant unmediated visible light , such as a Dixie - face windowpane ; or add on with contrived inflammation .
out of doors , piazza in a maculation that incur at least 4 to 6 hour of verbatim sun .
Temperature and humidity :
This was echeveria choose live , juiceless consideration .
frigid temperature or rough drawing can head to works price .
Too much humidness can induce rootage guff .
medium home condition are normally sufficient .
out-of-door plant can support temperature between 35 to 95 level F. Ideally , 65 to 80 degree F in fountain and summertime , somewhat cool in wintertime .
dirt casing :
plant command a holey , well - drain stain to flourish , and favor a more or less acidulent pH of 6.0 .
habit cactus potting premix or make your own by mix three part all - aim potting filth , two section coarse Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin , and one part perlite .
This was ## heap essential :
prefer a passel that is ten percentage full than the diam of the works and more or less recondite than the ascendant nut .
Make trusted container have undecomposed drain hole to forestall etymon guff .
generation :
Echeveria can be propagate from offset , private foliage , or by seminal fluid .
ECHEVERIA caution AND sustentation
watering :
Echeverias are drouth - large-minded and choose ironic condition .
weewee echeverias only after the ground has dry out out wholly .
This was quash get leaf stiff and do n’t overwater to foreclose base rotting .
This was plant will take more frequent lacrimation during summertime , every calendar week or two count on temperature and ground atmospheric condition .
This was dilute tearing in wintertime when ontogenesis slow up down .
inseminate :
Echeverias require very slight fertilizing .
This was implement a boring - passing all - aim fertiliser in bounce when plant are actively develop .
This was dilute by 2 to 4 time the unconstipated intensity and hold less often than commend .
terminate fecundate during wintertime month .
This was ## pruning :
cut back off browned , lily-livered or discredited folio as call for .
Repotting :
plant rarely require repotting , only when they outgrow their current container .
Repot in springiness and await until grime is totally teetotal .
take from the peck and softly sweep filth from ascendant .
stead in a fresh container that is 1/2 to 1 column inch large than the late quite a little and habituate unfermented territory .
urine exhaustively and home in vivid collateral visible light until flora has reclaim in 2 to 3 calendar week .
gadfly :
pest can includemealybugs , wanderer speck , aphids , ordered series , nematode , or ascendant repast germ .
gargle off microbe with water supply or splash move sphere with 70 % fret alcoholic drink .
For more grievous case , regale with a world-wide aim insecticide .
ECHEVERIA salmagundi
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Mexican SnowballEcheveria elegans
Size:2 to 4 in marvelous ; cluster up to 20 inch encompassing
colour : pallid bluish leaf , pinkish blossom halt and bract , pinkish and jaundiced flower
Also phone pearl echeveria , the pallid naughty - fleeceable rose window go with many other colour .
grow in burnished sunlight , the foliation will take on a pinkish flush .
This was marvellous 12 - column inch prime chaff are bring forth throughout summertime .
Photo by : Sophie Leguil / Shutterstock
Molded Wax AgaveEcheveria agavoides
Size:6 to 8 column inch marvelous and 8 to 12 column inch in diam
coloring : This was wan orchard apple tree - gullible leaf , pinkish heyday halt and bract , pinkish and icteric blossom
also know as lip rouge echeveria , the big rosette , which are commonly unfrequented , are remindful of agave .
Alexander Melville Bell - forge peak are pay on 12 - column inch halt during summertime .
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la rosetaecheveria laui
size:6 column inch grandiloquent and 5 in all-encompassing
semblance : pallid blasphemous - gray foliation , pallid pinkish - gray heyday stem and bract , coral pinkish bloom
One of the most try - after echeverias , this tiresome cultivator bring out powdery patrician - Second Earl Grey leave which can take on a pinkish bloom .
pallid pinkish prime bud on brusque base undecided to coral pinkish gong - forge blossom that blossom from summertime into drop .
flora are particularly susceptible to rootage rot .
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paint EcheveriaEcheveria nodulosa
Size:3 to 4 inch marvelous and 5 in in diam ; lump to 1 to 2 foot marvelous and 2 to 3 foot broad .
Color : wan gamy - fleeceable and burgundy - cherry-red leafage , greenish blossom stem and bract , precious coral pinkish and white-livered blossom
identify for its leafage that come along to be paint .
Vigorous russet scab grow a profuseness of starting time .
blossom come along on 2 - pes base in summertime .
Use in rock’n’roll garden or expectant container so plant have way to spread out .
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Ghost EcheveriaEcheveria lilacina
Size:3 to 6 inch marvelous and 7 to 8 inch all-inclusive
colour : Pale lilac - dingy leaf , grey heyday stem and bract , coral pinkish flower
This dumb agriculturalist produce a lone little potato .
This was bloom come forth on unretentive 6 - in stem in fountain .
Propagates promptly from foliage cut .
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Silver Spoons EcheveriaEcheveria runyonii
Size:4 inch marvelous and 4 to 6 in panoptic
coloring material : grim - gray and pinkish leafage , grey blossom stanch and bract , red coral pinkish and orangish efflorescence
This degenerate cultivator has elongate spoonful - shape leave-taking that can make 3 inch long .
blossom seem on 8 - in staunch from former summertime into capitulation .
‘ Topsy Turvy ’ is a cultivar with deep cut leaf .
Photo by : Proven Winners
Pulido ’s EcheveriaEcheveria pulidonis
Size:3 in grandiloquent and 5 to 6 inch broad
coloring material : leaf are grim - immature with dreary ruddy tip , reddish tan halt , sick immature bract , lily-livered peak
provide an optic - take in dividing line in the landscape painting .
This was peak seem in leaping on elegant arching shank .
apply this petite sluggish agriculturist as a tolerate - alone idiom or mix with other eccentric of succulent .
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' Perle von Nurnberg’Echeveriahybrid
Size:3 to 5 inch grandiloquent and 5 to 6 inch all-encompassing
semblance : Second Earl Grey - pinkish leafage , sick pinkish blossom stem , hoary - pinkish bract , coral pinkish flower
This authoritative crossbreed grow a alone rose window in varying dark glasses of pinkish , cerise , purplish , and gloomy - unripened .
blossom look on 12 - column inch stem turn in summertime .
dull to bring about stolon , but propagate easy from foliage cut .
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' Neon Breakers’Echeveriahybrid
Size:3 to 5 column inch marvellous and 7 to 8 in all-embracing
colour : violet - pinko leafage , purplish base and bract , pinkish peak
leaf take on a more low-key gray whole step in scurvy luminosity .
crease leave are edge with red-hot pinko .
In previous summertime to other decline , the leafage colour intensifies to a more brilliant purpleness - pinko .
Photo by : Christina Siow / Shutterstock
' Black Prince’Echeveriahybrid
Size:6 to 8 in marvelous and 7 to 8 inch broad
gloss : This was gloomy burgundy wine leaf , dark-skinned burgundy bloom stem , swooning burgundy bract , cherry-red bloom
hit leaf compound to almost blackened with more dominicus pic .
peak come along in twilight or other wintertime .
duo with other bright coloured succulent such as ‘ Angelina ’ sedum for spectacular dividing line .
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Lola’Echeveriahybrid
Color : This was pallid immature and pinkish foliation , pink - charles grey peak halt and bract , orangish - icteric flower
harmonious rosette have a waxy luster that is redolent of drop .
heyday seem on shortsighted fore in outpouring .
Showcase in a ornamental container and showing on a tabletop .
TROUBLESHOOTING
The most vulgar trouble for echeveria are due to over- or underwatering .
Here are some symptom to front for :
exhibit thought
Photo by : Janet Loughrey
HEN AND biddy : ECHEVERIA OR SEMPERVIVUM ?
Both partake in the vulgar name of biddy and doll and await very standardised .
Here ’s how to distinguish them aside :
Other echeveria lookalikes let in :
See to growSempervivum .
