Ten Rules I’ve Learned for Potted Succulents

After all my reading, I’ve been learning a lot about soil for succulents, and wanted to share what I’ve learned.  Most of this involves the soil, but there’s a bit about container choices as well.

Succulent Saturday Shopping

It’s been a humorous week.  At work, I received an email from a coworker with the subject line “Succulent SOS!” with a picture of a mixed succulent pot in our Chicago office with a very very dead looking dog-tail cactus. After delivering the bad news, …

Weekend Update: New Seedling Tactics, Repotting, and One Cat’s Trail of Destruction

Repotting Well, I didn’t pose a compelling enough argument to my partner this weekend to take me to either Ikea or to see the new Star Wars, so it was a decent time for my love of plants to take me into…. 3d modelling? I …

Sketchup And DIY

While doing some research on design sprints for work recently, I came across a Google Ventures site called “CustomMade”.  The premise of the site was interesting – upload sketches, 3d models, or schematics of something you’d like custom made for you, and they’ll connect you …

Haworthia Rot at the Office

A cautionary tale from the office today.  The terrarium that a co-worker had on her desk that kicked off my recent fascination and obsession with succulents has suffered a loss.  An attractive speciment of haworthia, of what looked like it might have been one of the pointier cooperi type.  

Weekend Project Update (And Echeveria Week 4 Progress)

Time for the weekend round up of my various indoor winter plant-projects.

Plant Fertilizer 101

The order I had placed recently for those tiny succulents came with instructions to fertilize the plants occasionally with a “5-10-10” fertilizer.  That got me thinking that it might be good to do a little bit of sharing of some of the information that I have been reading up on recently regarding plant fertilizers and what you can do with those numbers.