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Echeverias


Echeveria agavoides
These lovely plants are moderately fast growers. They like good, bright light up to full sunlight. If your plant begins to show more and more space between the leaves, it is stretching and needs more light to help it keep a compact rosette shape. Keep soil relatively moist, letting them dry out somewhat between waterings. Diluted fertilizer is appreciated every second or third watering.

Echeveria 'Princess Lace'
Echeverias range in size from small, hard-leafed varieties (sometimes more than an inch or two across) to large, colorful and wavy-leafed varieties that grow to as much as two feet across. There are hundreds of varieties, some are species collected from the wild; and many are man-made hybrids.

Echeveria 'Paul Bunyan'

These plants are fantastic because of the range of colors in the leaves. For example, there is 'Blue Curls' with its bluish-red wavy leaves,'Black Prince' with its midnight black leaves and 'Pink Frills' with its rosy pink coloring. Not to be forgotten is Echeveria 'Culebra' with its thick caruncles (sometimes called carbuncles) on the leaf surface.

 

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