Brad

No, the color of Winter is STUPENDOUS!

Are there even words for those colors
Don't grow much of em, but sure do like the colors and excellent photographs!

Love the winter color Brad. You California growers make me drool. Scott just took the shade cloth off my shade area for a few months, so things can get a little more sun and color while the season permits.

Oh wow, those are amazing!!!!! I have to ask-- what are the succulents in the first and third pics? I have to have one!

Roma, the color is stupendous? Never heard of that particular color, but you can never tell how others folks are going to see things. Thank-you

CC, I only started growing Echeveria, Sedums, and other 'soft' succulents after I found that they Love the climate here, but most cacti have a tough time, and need some coddling to survive. Adapt or die. I really like the color changes some of these plants go through during the winter.

DG, you desert growers make me drool. Your garden is magnificent. I could never replicate some of your plantings here. Shade cloth in the winter? Amazing!

Ryan, the first pic is Sedum 'Aurora', the third is a mix of Sedum 'Aurora' (top), Sedum 'Big Beans (Right), and Sedum 'Crocodile Tears' (Left). I suspect these three are cultivars or hybrids of Sedum rubrotinctum.

The others:

top middle: Echeveria 'Mt. Etna', in transition from the reds and purples of fall, to the greens and blues of spring.

bottom left: Echeveria 'Van Heit'. This one is mostly green for much of the year.

Next is an unknown Euphorbia. It is similar to E. obesa, but is much thinner, and grows vertically. The top of the largest stem rotted last winter, and had to be amputated, leaving that big nasty scar on top. Fortunately, it has made a lot of pups, and is even sporting a new one at the top on the edge of the cut. Identification would be appreciated.

After that is a very blue Pachyveria 'exotica' just starting to bloom. This is a great plant, and a prolific clumper.

The last is Echeveria 'pulidonis', looking a little waterlogged. Echeverias seem to use this time of year to recycle last years oldest leaves, hence the yellow periphery.

Thanks all.

Brad

Yes these are very nice pictures. My plants are either indoors or burried under snow.


S. 'Aurora', also called, S. 'Rubrotinctum Aurora' is basically a variegated 'Rubrotinctum' and tends to revert if you try to grow it from leaf cuttings. 'Rubrotinctum' is itself a hybrid of S. pachyphyllum and S. stahlii. I've never heard of 'Big Beans' and 'Crocodile Tears', I shall have to look out for them.


I think this is E. 'Dentonii' which is a hybrid of E. obesa.


I think this is a species and shouldn't be in quotes.

Thanks Brad. I'm gonna have to ping my garden circle to see if anyone has any leaves lying around!!! I don't have many succulents or cacti yet but I'm completely enthralled by them!


Ryan