Succulents make great indoor plants in the winter, many of them aren't hardy, and then when risk of frost is over, they look great in flattish planters mixed with other varieties of succulents. They do tend to multiply very fast, so some of the least favourite ones have to stay outside, last winter it was so mild, I didn't lose any of them to frosts.
I have just looked up 'Echeveria Flowering', and found an excellent explanation of what triggers their flowering, basically because thyey come from Mexico where day length doesn't change throughout the year, there has to be a different trigger for flowering, and this is light intensity. This spring, by April, on my south facing windowsills, these succulents got a very high light intensity, how fascinating!! Thanks for this information to Jacki Cammidge.
I noticed recently that lots of mine were sending up flower stalks, they looked quite spectacular, here are a few:
The one above is one of my favourite Echeveria, it's shaviana 'Pink Frills', it's widely seen in gardens in the West Midlands, I bought it a few years ago from the fabulous Ashwood Nurseries. Visiting there on a garden tour a few years ago. Our visit didn't coincide with John's garden being open on that occasion, but I'm hoping to go back and have a look when it's open again.
I think this prolific succulent is an Echeveria elegans
I think this is another Echeveria above, it looks much better if left outside amazingly enough, when it grew 9 flower stalks instead of one!
This is I think, a Haworthia, it has flowered probably out of desperation, it has recently been repotted, but left too long with insufficient water.
The photo below was taken on 28 May, 3 weeks later, the flower stalk is longer, but the flowers haven't opened.
Isn't this a glorious plant? I bought it from RHS Wisley last summer, I think ti might be an Adromischus cristatus, although the label said 'succulent'.
A piece fell off the succulent on the way home, or should I say a leaf, fell off, I put it into the soil and a year later have a whole new plant.
Here are a couple of photos of another flowering succulent which did overwinter outside, maybe another Echeveria
Well that was very interesting, my succulents flowered because of the high light intensity experienced this spring.
I have just looked up 'Echeveria Flowering', and found an excellent explanation of what triggers their flowering, basically because thyey come from Mexico where day length doesn't change throughout the year, there has to be a different trigger for flowering, and this is light intensity. This spring, by April, on my south facing windowsills, these succulents got a very high light intensity, how fascinating!! Thanks for this information to Jacki Cammidge.
I noticed recently that lots of mine were sending up flower stalks, they looked quite spectacular, here are a few:
I'm not sure if this is an Aloe or Haworthia, but it was one of several plants my daughter gave me to rescue, I repotted it and several months later it flowered:
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