Succulents are all the rage, and it’s no wonder! They are so very interesting and easy to take care of and so simple to propogate! Infact, propogating succulents is one of the pleasures of container gardening, and it is so very simple! A few months ago a fried of mine sadly passed away, and I decided to keep her garden alive by taking cuttings from her old plants. And I figured I’d try to root large cuttings, and it worked!
The pot you see here was made from cuttings just a bit smaller as the plant in the back even started to grow, within about a month of being placed in the pot! Not to mention spring flowers!
The two succulents you see here are:
In the back of the pot: Crassula arborescens, the silver dollar plant, which is native to Western Cape, South Africa, and is a 2 to 4ft succulent shrub. Whoops! Now that the plant has bloomed I have correctly identified it as cotyledon arbiculata, also a native of South Africa. Check out my post Amazing Blooming Succulent: Cotyledon Arbiculata.
In the front of the pot: Graptopetalum paraguayense, ghost plant, native to Tamaulipas, Mexico, which can also be propogated from leaves!
Note: I was propogating these cuttings in the dead of winter, so I dipped the tips in hormone powder, but generally speaking succulent cuttings taken and set aside for a few days, and then placed in soil or water will root on their own.
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