Tag Archives: echeverias

Gardening in lockdown – Succulents in Containers

Posted on June 12, 2020 by greenbenchramblings

Once it is warm enough day and especially night time for plants to be hardened off out of the greenhouse I always enjoy smartening up my succulent containers and perhaps create a few new ones. Even within lock down I … Continue reading →

Posted in garden design, garden photography, gardening, succulents | Tagged aeomiums, container gardening, echeverias, succulents

My Garden Journal in August

Posted on September 2, 2016 by greenbenchramblings

My August entries in my Garden Journal 2016 see me beginning Volume Two. On the first page I look back to my original garden journal’s August entries. “I made my first ever entries for our new garden in August 2003. … Continue reading →

Posted in colours, flowering bulbs, garden design, garden photography, gardening, hardy perennials, light, light quality, National Garden Scheme, NGS, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, outdoor sculpture, Shropshire, South Shropshire, succulents, swallows, village gardens, Yellow Book Gardens | Tagged crocosmias, diascia, Diascia personata Hopleys, Echeveria, echeverias, garden sculpture, gardening, gardens, honeysuckle, National Garden Scheme, NGS, outdoor sculpture, salvias, sculpture | 2 Comments

My Garden Journal in May

Posted on July 10, 2016 by greenbenchramblings

Just as I completed my journal for June I realised that I had not yet posted “My Garden Journal for May”, so here it is now for you to enjoy! The June journal report won’t be far behind! Summer creeping … Continue reading →

Posted in birds, climbing plants, colours, flowering bulbs, garden design, garden photography, garden ponds, garden pools, garden wildlife, gardening, gardens, grasses, hardy perennials, house martins, light, light quality, ornamental grasses, ornamental trees and shrubs, roses, Shropshire, shrubs, spring bulbs, spring gardening, succulents, swallows, water in the garden, wildlife | Tagged acers., aeomiums, bog garden, bog plants, clematis, climbers, climbing plants, Echeveria, echeverias, gardens in May, hostas, May, ornamental grasses, roses, succulents, the garden in May, white flowers, white in the harden | 1 Comment

Special Succulents

Posted on June 27, 2016 by greenbenchramblings

I have a special interest in succulents and have grown a good selection over the last few years. My interest in them has been a recent one and began with the purchase of an Aeonium arboreum Schwarzkopf which we nurtured … Continue reading →

Posted in garden photography, gardening, succulents | Tagged aeomiums, aeonium, cacti, Crassula, Echeveria, echeverias, glasshouses, succulents, Winterbourne House Gardens | 2 Comments

Overwintering.

Posted on February 10, 2012 by greenbenchramblings

The greenhouse is a true haven when the temperatures drop so low that your hands feel the cold even with your gloves on and the top of your head feels it through your hat. We have just switched on the propagating units … Continue reading →