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Home/Tuis: Get Creative with Succulents succulents GET CREATIVE with succulents! These waterwise beauties will make a Young aloe statement in anything from a hanging basket or tin to a pot or wooden box. By Marié Esterhuyse Photographs Francois Oberholster Styling Melissa Rautenbach Sedum rupestre The possibilities are endless when it comes to creating a ‘Angelina’ picture-perfect display with succulents. Ann Kerr of The Pink Geranium Nursery, the location for these photographs, and Buck Hemenway of the Calitzdorp Succulent Society offer Tadvice on how to get the best from your succulent plants. # 1 Hanging gardens According to Ann, fleshy succulents are the perfect candidates for a hanging basket. “They can survive for long periods without water and make a beautiful display,” she says. “The growth habit of many succulents is ideal; even an immature aloe will work. Follow your instincts and go for the plants you love.” Sedum tetractinum Make your own hanging baskets – it’s so simple! ‘Coral Reef’ Tips • Water the basket well once a week – at most – rather than superficially every now and then. Immerse it in a bowl of You will need water to soak. Dry off the outside of the basket and return it • a wire basket to its hanging spot. Plants exposed to wind will dry out more • coir (optional) [PLANT LIST FOR HANGING BASKETS] quickly, so they’ll need more water. • good, friable potting soil that • If the wind is blowing strongly, place your hanging baskets drains well SUCCULENTS COMPANION PLANTS on the ground so that they don’t get damaged. • organic fertiliser • Sedum tetractinum‘Coral Reef’, Combine succulents with other • Even an aloe, which usually grows quite big, will work in a S. rupestre ‘Angelina’, S. athoum, plants that have the same water • a variety of succulents basket. If it is planted when it is still immature, it can be kept S. rubrotinctum and S. reflexum requirements and a complementary contained for quite a while. Transplant it into your garden ‘Blue Spruce’ growth habit. when it gets too big for the basket. HERE’S HOW • Crassula spathulata, C. pellucida • Smaller Scabiosa species and C. multicava • Wild garlic (Tulbaghia violacea) • Consider interesting combinations. Plants with leaves in contrasting colours or even in shades of grey look great Start by lining the hanging basket • Cotyledon orbiculata ‘Firesticks’, and any dwarf agapanthus for their together. If you decide to only use plants with grey foliage, with coir, if it doesn’t already have C. orbiculata ‘Greytown Spoons’ strappy foliage. The shape of their choose different leaf shapes and textures. Stonecrop and such a lining. Fill it halfway with and C. orbiculata ‘Staghorn’ leaves contrasts well with the round • Blue chalk sticks (Senecio and more structural leaves of any grey-leafed Cotelydon orbiculata such as C. orbiculata potting soil and mix in a handful of mandraliscae) and S. crassifolius many succulents. ‘Firesticks’ and C. orbiculata ‘Staghorn’ go well together. fertiliser. Decide how you want to • Echeveria • Blue felicia (Felicia amelloides) • An aloe’s structural, pointed leaves contrast beautifully arrange the succulents; remember • Small aloes • Rosemary with the rounder or more dainty leaves and flowers of many that you are trying to create a mini- • Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) • Liriope muscari and black mondo succulents and can be used as a focal point in the basket. garden in the basket. Start with • Vygies for colour in spring grass or any small ornamental • For colourful impact, combine a red-floweringKalanchoe the centrepiece and plant around it. grasses. with a Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’ with its striking lime-green Fill the basket with potting soil and water leaves. >> well. Feed the plants every two months with an organic fertiliser such as Talborne; your basket should look good throughout the year! 98 home February 2018 February 2018 home 99 succulents succulents Yellow and pink It’s a mug’s game Kalanchoe A tin mug (left) with a mini succulent looks lovely. Basically, any enamel ware works well, especially if it’s a little rusty – and the rusted holes will provide the necessary drainage! If the mug doesn’t have holes, tap a nail through the bottom to make a # drainage hole or two. A single succulent is perfect for small 2 containers; in larger containers, a variety of plants grouped On display Succulents will happily grow in tins, mugs or any together will look good. Scatter other container, large or small. Make sure to first small stones on the top for a check what the plant’s growth habit and mature size finishing touch – choose a Senecio will be before deciding on a container. colour, size and texture that mandraliscae complements the plant. Shelf life An old window frame and a bookshelf against a rustic wall provide the perfect spot for showcasing succulents in all shapes and sizes in a variety of pots. Have fun with your display – as long as the plants you choose bring you joy, and the colours of the pots and the foliage complement each other. Box clever Even a wooden box is suitable as a container. Line the box with black plastic to prevent the wood from rotting. Make a few drainage holes in the plastic, add a layer of pebbles at the bottom and fill the box with friable potting soil before planting the succulents of your choice. Here, a Kalanchoe, a variety of Sedums and a Even a broken pot Senecio are thriving together. will work as a container for succulents. If you’re not keen to plant Recycle, re-use succulents directly into a Plant a succulent or two in brightly coloured olive oil tins, wooden box, use it as a holder Kalanchoe ‘Tessa‘ like Lenore Retief of Stellenbosch has done. “I always for a group of pots; here, a box Sedum tetractinum have too few containers for my plants,” she explains. has been used to display a ‘Coral Reef’ “The tins are eye-catching and take on more character cluster of dainty Crassula the older they get.” Lenore’s husband cut each tin in spathulata to best effect. half and then bent the sharp edges over with a pair of pliers. The spout through which the olive oil is poured forms the drainage hole for one half, while a few holes have been made in the bottom of the other half with a nail. Lenore’s collection is always a conversation starter! Senecio Sedum reflexum ‘Blue Spruce’ Crassula spathulata Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’ 100 home February 2018 February 2018 home 101 succulents Break off a stem of a succulent Crassula capitella and place it in a jar of water; ‘Campfire’ If you love once it has formed sufficient roots, transplant it into a pot succulents, you or flowerbed. can never have enough! # 3 Recipe for success Kalanchoe pumila Although succulents are hardy waterwise plants, they still need a bit of attention. Buck tells you how to keep your succulents happy... Soil As with any plant, soil preparation is key, especially when you grow them in containers. Use special succulent potting soil from a nursery or make your own Spread the wealth! mixture with one-part organic matter and one-part porous inorganic material. Most succulents can be divided and will Leaf mould, composted pine bark or easily grow from cuttings. Even a leaf topsoil are all suitable organic material placed on top of the soil will form a plant. and are available at most major nurseries. For inorganic material, use fine gravel, • It’s best to take cuttings while the plant perlite or expanded clay pellets. If you is in its growth phase – when new leaves choose perlite, you need to add coarse are forming, but not necessarily flowers. washed plaster sand as ballast (not beach • Succulents such as Sedums and sand or silica sand – it will form a dense Mother Nature Crassulas that grow close to the soil will layer that hampers adequate drainage). almost never causes make roots where the stems touch the as a result of rain; we ground. Simply pull off a piece and plant Fill the container up to just below the succulents to rot rim. Other than aesthetic reasons, do that with a hosepipe. – Buck it elsewhere. half-empty containers are not a good idea • To increase Cotelydons and Echeverias, as they tend to trap air, forming the break off a leaf where it is attached to the perfect breeding ground for harmful bugs. plant and place it on top of the soil; the Fertilising Light underside of the leaf must touch the soil. Feed the plants during their active growth Most succulents need bright light to This leaf will form new roots. Keep it moist Water and drainage phase with a diluted, balanced fertiliser low maintain their best form and to produce but not too wet or it will rot. Succulents don’t like wet feet and should in nitrogen (there are different products for flowers. Although most can handle full • Any succulent that has formed ‘baby never stay too wet for too long – their roots different succulents – enquire at your local sun, some succulents get scorched leaves plants’ can be easily divided. Wait until will rot. Make sure the soil in the container nursery). Add this to the water every time in the hot summer sun, and excessive the new plantlets have roots of their own, has dried out well before watering again. you irrigate your plants or use as a foliar heat can damage roots. To ensure your then remove the mother plant from the Also, give less water during the plant’s feed. Dilute liquid or water-soluble fertilisers succulents get the right amount of pot and carefully break off the new plants dormant phase (usually in winter).
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