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This one here in front of me, this large specimen is called Setosa
Arrow. It is one of the best varieties to create a standard out of like a little miniature
tree
and just as it grows and the rosette moves up the stem, just keep
trimming off the leaves and then you get side shoots
that will occur and you can create a little standard out of it.
Interesting variety in that respect. Very early blooming
as well. It has a nice orange flower to it. Fuzzy, pointy leaves.
Small, small heads but as you can see, tons of them.
And the lightest color variety that I know of
is called Pallida. It's almost a chartreuse
look to it and it just works
awesome against some of the darker ones like Black Knight, etcetera.
Over here, this one,
this is called Nodulosa. The Nodulosa
has an interesting leaf pattern. It's got a burgundy
lines in the middle and at the edge of the leaf.
And a very excellent branching
variety as well. To sort of finish the segment off,
I want to introduce a couple other types of
succulents as well. These are not echeveria
but I couldn't resist putting them in
this part 1 of the tender succulents. Down in front here we have a plant
called Euphorbia Fire Sticks.
Starts off green in the spring and as the season progresses and the weather
gets
hotter and the nights cooler, well then you get this
orange tone coming through on the foliage and just looks like
fiery sticks. Excellent addition actually to this mix planter.
And that's the other thing, is you don't just have to use echeveria.
You can get into all the different types to tender succulents. We will get more
into that
throughout the next couple years as we do more and more segments,
get into some taller types of plants in the middle and so on.
And that's where we do use this at times, this is called Aeonium
Zwartkop and it's the blackest leaf plant,
one of the blackest leaf plants that I know of. It is taller
so if we were to take one out here, it can show you what I mean.
So they start off
very low and then the rosette will move up the stem and the leaves
just, as it finish, this would dry up
and fall off and the rosettes stays
at the very top like this. Now if you want to create some side branching,
simply just cut that off, remove it and then at the nodes
where there were leaves located, you will get little side branches
starting to occur . And again, you can create this great
standard out of it. I talked to a few customers that have these,
we got like five year old specimens in there about four feet tall,
you can bring them in in the winter. Treat them
as an indoor plant as well. So even though they don't suvive our winters, they
are
a good investment in that respect. You have a well lit window in the winter,
just bring the mixed bowl in, set it on a
counter or table by a window, keep it very dry
throughout that time frame and it will stretch a little bit but you can nip things
back,
nip things back a little bit and bring it back out
in the spring when frost is gone and just get it out in full sun.
Just great choices for low-maintenance
and also
another great thing they are used for is, the kind of a modern-day
centerpiece for weddings now. So
we do take orders for large amounts. We have worked for a couple
weddings already where they use this as centerpieces
out on the tables in the weddings. Finally I just like to say that we do
over 40 varieties of these echeveria and we do not always have them
all available in the retail shopping area.
So if there's a variety that you see maybe on this
segment or that you've heard about, just check with us
and we'll look in the back growing area to see there's any ready to come out for
you
because we don't want you to make a substitute
decision if there's really one that is a favorite to you.
So I just want to end by saying, "Happy
picking!"