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Growing Succulents

November 22, 2011 - GrowOrganic

Planting Blueberries & Growing Blueberries

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Make your own succulent container gardens

We’re making succulent container gardens, and you can too! Succulents have cast their spell over us! As soon as they showed up in our nursery greenhouse we on the staff started taking our breaks at the succulent tables. First we were excited by the rainbow of colors of these unusual plants that store water. Then we focused on one plant at a time, marveling at the leaf forms. Then we went on a buying frenzy and at the end of the work day employees were seen carrying boxes of succulents out to…

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Make your own succulent container gardens November 22, 2011 - Charlotte from Peaceful Valley We’re making succulent container gardens, and you can too! Succulents have cast their spell over us! As soon as they showed up in our nursery greenhouse we on the staff started taking our breaks… read more»	Succulents in the Nursery October 19, 2011 - Stephanie from Peaceful Valley Well I didn’t get out this week, but the plants came to me. Here are some great shots I got at our Grass Valley nursery of our newest shipment of succulents. Colorful Echeveria ‘Afterglow’… read more»

Categories: Succulents, Container Gardening

Debra Lee Baldwin Says:

Dec 7th, 2011 at 7:09 pm

Wonderful video, Tricia. (I’m going to borrow the fast-forward idea for my next one.) Lots of good info on the succulents and how to pot them. I’ll be sure to pass along the link. Many thanks for the mention!