Can anyone ID this one, please? They grow in gardens and along the lanes in the Isles of Scilly. I brought a small piece back a few years ago and have grown it to about 3 feet high in my greenhouse.
Hi Hornbeam, Think it's Aeonium 'Zwartkopf', they grow really well down here although I bring mine in for the Winter. Has yours ever flowered? Mine had small yellow flowers this year - wish I'd taken a piccie.
Had a quick look-up in my file - Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop' (sorry about the previous mis-spelling!) Think that's the one
Thanks Windy :D No, I've not had any flowers and have to keep it under glass here. Keep promising myself that one day, I'll move to Cornwall - magic place and I do envy you
I put mine out in the summer when it goes almost black in colour I've been told that its actually a winter grower, but I tend not to water it much during the winter, so it has to do its best in the summer, fine in a normal summer, but this year has been a bit hot so mine hardly grew at all.
A very interesting and most peculiar plant! I assume they are other succulents at the base of the plant, Pete?
OOh Pete! Yours is HUGE!!! Mine is only about 2ft tall but is a cluster of loads of rosettes. Like the way you've planted it with the echeverias - might have to pinch that idea if you don't mind?!!!
Well, Windy, your opening line gets the attention! Pete, I think it looks like the Glauca, or Blue Echeveria. Very pretty.
Thanks Windy. :D Its been in the same pot, with the echiverias for two years now, I just put it in the greenhouse for winter and bring it out again next year. Hope to get one more summer out of it before I need to separate the echiverias, other than that its pretty much self supporting and needs hardly any attention.
2ft sounds huge to me. I bought one at the amateur gardening show last year, it's only 2 inches high LOL.
I just found this thread. The plant looks like what we have seen growing often in southen countries. We snitched a bit quite some years ago, I can't remember if it was in Spain or Portugal, and it did very well at home. We put it outside with all of our cactii and succulents in the summer and they all were brought back into our Wintergarten for the winter. We gave up such about 12 years ago and all of the plants went to new homes. Hornbeam - yours is a fab colour! Have never seen it before. Ours was just the regular run-of-the-mill green. Ours grew tall but yours has obviously found the ideal place to live.
Hi Pete, you can propogate it quite easily by cutting off a rosette with about 3 - 4 inches of stem and sticking it into gritty compost. The stump left on the plant will then produce a new cluster of rosettes. I put mine into a cold greenhouse for the winter, mainly to stop it getting to much wet as it can rot the roots.
After saying just yesterday that I had never seen this fab colour before, today I see it at the foot of another plant that I was photographing!
Yeah thanks Blackthorn, I tend to cut the tops off to try to create a "bushy" head, if you know what I mean. Then you end up with pieces you dont want to throw away, so you just get more and more of them. :D :D
