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Hello gardening friends, welcome to Backyard Basics
Well, so a lot of people are using succulents
and I wanted to show you some alternative succulent containers that are
beautiful
but there are some other alternatives too One of the things you can do is you can
use regular pots
but I like the found objects that you find at
garage sales and other places out there and so
I brought a couple of them with me I think they're really neat
sometimes though they may have a drainage issues
maybe there's a big gap down there this one has many gaps in it
and some of these others are pretty open so what I use is a
landscape fabric on the inside it still drains
but it keeps the soil from washing out and that's really important
Some of these plants, they're in the bromiliad family today
and these are well those are earth stars those are little pink ones right there in the small
container
earth stars just a beautiful one called a cribtanthus
and see how small of a container they can grow in?
That little pot right there you can find at garage sales and
this one doesn't have drainage and so you either
put some rock in the bottom or drill a little hole
I think I'll little hole down there will really supply drainage that's necessary
but they're beautiful little alternatives to Echeverri's there's
only so many of those that you can plant
and these are high shade in other words
a lot of sun is coming through but not the direct afternoon sun
but a beautiful little plant a great alternative there's others
right here is a larger cribtanthus nice beautiful plant beautiful colors
wonderful
here's another one black magic and
look at those just wonderful bars on the leaves
I've loved criptanthus for many years they're one of my favorite plants I like
to collect a few of them
and so they are easy to grow bright indirect light
they can take temperatures down near oh, 34
you gotta bring 'em in up little bit too if they're in the freezing zone
but a 34 is not too bad around here in the winters
so the criptanthus is nice and easy to grow
and they like a little bit of moisture they don't have to be
wet at all nor do they like being real dry for extended periods
so there's a little bit of moisture that's being used in these guys
and there's other ones like these dyckias right here
the dyckias are South American plants
they grow in rocky outcroppings in some areas
on the earth also and I just like them
but they're really really sharp so you got to learn to work with these guys
in order that you really don't hurt yourself but they're beautiful little
plants
and some great flowers of them just some beautiful flowers
so they would also work in a found object typeof a container
I really like those also there's dyckias and hectias
both of them can really get down below freezing
just barely below but they can get down in that range also
over here on my left is something that will grow in the shade these are a couple of
of ferns
and this is a lace fern and then there's a nest fern
bird's nest and this one's called Leslie
you know these two plants need a little bit more moisture but they do grow in
the shade
and so we need something in the shady areas too
they don't take the deep cold they get down there were it's chilly
but then it's time to go ahead and bring them into the house so
these are some great alternatives I really like these I really like the
succulent displays
but I certainly like these as another alternative for
your backyard. For Backyard Basics, I'm John Dromgoole.