I like succulents, but I don’t know how to DIY a beautiful succulent platter. Now we will answer some common succulent platter questions, hoping to be helpful to everyone who likes succulents.
●Habits of succulents
Generally speaking, we divide succulents into two categories, namely "winter species" and "summer species".
The optimal growth temperature for winter species is 10°-20°. If it is lower than 5° or higher than 30°, it will go dormant. During the dormant period, water will be cut off. Most of the common Sedum, Liliaceae, and Apricotaceae are winter species.
The optimal growth temperature for summer varieties is above 15°. Cactaceae and Euphorbiaceae are summer-type species.
In Sedumaceae, "winter species" and "summer species" are not absolute, they are just relative concepts. There are many succulents, and their habits have changed as the environment has moved. For example, the genus Echeveria is a summer species in its native place and is very vigorous in summer, but when it comes to us, it goes dormant in summer; another example is the genus Sedum Kovasia, whose native place is Hokkaido and should be It is very cold-resistant, but what we see is - dormant in winter, awakening in spring, lush in summer and autumn... It can be seen that different maintenance environments have a great impact on plants.
●The appearance of succulents
The second factor to consider when making a platter is the appearance of the succulents. In detail, it is divided into shape, color, etc. Let’s take Crassulaceae plants as an example to talk about how to match them.
○Shape: Common sedum plants are roughly divided into two types, namely "column-shaped" and "flower-shaped".
The columnar ones are represented by plants of the genus Cynophyllum; there are more flower-shaped ones, such as Echeveria, Heliconia, Sempervivum, and Pachyphylla.
Plants of the genus Crassula grow straight upward and are easy to split.
Echeveria, Sempervivum, Pachyphytum, etc. are relatively short and easy to grow in groups.
Although Aeonium is also flower-shaped, its stems are upright and may grow taller.
Please pay attention when matchingThe heights are well-proportioned.
○Color: When the temperature difference is large, sedum plants will change color. The original green is replaced by more vivid colors. The main colors are yellow, red, purple, white, black, and blue. The representative plants are as follows .
Yellow: Rising Sun, Huangli, Emperor Star, Mingyue, Golden Flower Moon, Dongyun.
Red: Fire Festival, Red Lotus, Ji Longyue.
Purple: Purple Pearl, Blue Echeveria, Frost Crane.
Brown: purple peony, rosette
White: White Peony, Gem Flower, Snow Lotus, Echeveria Lushi.
Black: Black Mage, Black Prince, Yamato Nishiki, Xiaowa Nishiki.
Blue: Huayueye, Blue Lotus, Blue Pine.
●How to DIY meat platter
The final problem to be solved is that it is so dense, how to plant it? To put it simply, plant it one tree at a time. My habit is to plant one "diameter" first, then the two sides.
I wish everyone can harvest the good mood that plants bring to you while planting~
Text/Picture: Tao Se
