There’s a nightmare scenario among gardeners: you spend hundreds of hours ensuring your plants are happy, healthy, and growing strong, only for your work to be usurped by an unexpected drop in temperature.
Vibrant Succulents to Brighten Your Indoor Space
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Succulents thrive in arid, often harsh climates, with abundant bright sunshine year-round and little to no regular water. They have adapted to such conditions by developing thick, fleshy leaves and stems to store whatever moisture eventually comes their way. They are survivors, accustomed to living and even flourishing with minimal care.
Gardening with succulents allows you to experiment with an exciting array of textures, colors, sizes, and forms. In warmer, drier, snow-free parts of the world, a wide range of succulents work beautifully in the sunny landscape, but there’s no need to despair if you’re a cold climate gardener or just hope to liven up your indoor jungle by adding a succulent or three. Given the right growing conditions, there are many charming succulent choices available to you.
Succulents grown outdoors perform best when planted in full sun, in light, well-aerated soil with excellent drainage, and with minimal but regular irrigation during dryer periods. Indoors, it’s pretty much the same. Suitable warmth, bright light, good drainage, and minimal moisture are the keys to success for almost any succulent you might wish to try as a houseplant.
The following succulents will do well in a bright sunny location inside and can be transitioned in late spring or summer to the outdoors in much of the Pacific Northwest.
‘Fish Hooks’ senecio
(Curio radicans ‘Fish Hooks’, Zones 10-11)
This is a wonderful trailing succulent from Africa with small green, banana-shaped leaves (which some say look like fish hooks) spaced along the long, slender, trailing fleshy stems. This succulent will love the brightest location in your house and needs ample room to trail since it can grow up to 8 feet long with time. ‘Fish
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