Trying my luck with a few more little plants. I am hoping these little succulents and the tiny cactus will be more resilient and I will pay closer attention to their soil and sunshine. These are the three I recently bought.
Last weekend I bought a couple of new little pots and proper soil for cactus plants and succulents. The taller guy in the back was shooting up already and when I talked to someone at the nursery and showed her the photo she suggested clipping just the top and setting him in front of a window that gets full sunshine that he might grow outwards more than straight up. Apparently where I had him before he was reaching for the sunshine.
I have no idea why, but the plant in the blue pot seems more like a he and the smaller gal in the brown pot like a she!
The little cactus (indeterminate whether it is a he or she and am I totally silly for even contemplating that it should be a he or she?) is staying downstairs in my dining room. We'll she how it goes. The pot is very contemplative, isn't she? I have the urge to buy more tiny plants, but maybe I should see how these go. I have had them in the original plastic pots for a few weeks and now just a few days in their proper new homes. So far, so good. I can't decide if I should try and name them. I am not even sure their proper names. I think the tiny gal is an Echeveria.The tall gangly guy? Maybe just another variety of the same type? And my little cactus friend? I think it is just your garden variety generic little cactus.
There is a serious cuteness factor to them, though, don't you think?