Beginner Gardening: Show us your curly plants, 1 by Calif_Sue
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Calif_Sue wrote: Dick Wright is credited with creating a lot of the Echeveria hybrids including some of the fantastic echeveria gibbiflora. /photos/52885726@N00/sets/72157600346762930/with/3299527002/ http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/cactigal/msg11140034... /photos/52885726@N00/3299492676/ http://www.echeveriasinoz.com/photos.html One of the best articles on echies written by our own palmbob: http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/996/ One thing I noted in another article and what I totally agree on "If you live in Arizona or Florida, echeverias will be a challenge—they prefer a frost-free but temperate climate, most species inhabiting altitudes between 3000 and 10,000 feet in the Mexican sierras or South American Andes. The happiest I ever saw in cultivation were in Carmel and San Francisco, California, where sea-breezes and occasional cold fog brightened their colors." |