Description
A good form of the increasingly popular carpet bedding plants. Steely grey-blue succulent foliage with bronze tinges and vibrant orange flowers in summer.
Habit – Spreading
Resilience – Tender
Flowering Time – June – September
Height and spread – 7 x 10 cm
Ideal Conditions – Prefers full sun, or partial shade with free-draining soil or compost.
Possibile situation – Will help to create writing and detail against a darker background. Also useful for rockeries, paving, gravel gardens and will help create beautiful containers with other low-growing plants, such as Sedums, Sempervivums and Alternanthera.
Features – Drought Tolerant
Typical season – Spring
Flower Colour –
Foliage Colour – Blue (Glaucus)
Flowering time – June – September
Planting recommendation – Container Prefers – Full Sun
Temperature tolerance – To keep this plant over winter it must be kept in a frost free area.
Plant care – Snip flowers as they emerge if not required.
Family – CRASSULACEAE Genus – Echeveria Cultivar – (Blue flatter leaves – glauca)
Pot Sizes – 9cm Pot Spacing –
Growing Media and irrigation – Well drained – keep dry
Feeding fertiliser – NPK balanced feeding Feeding frequency – Requires normal/regular feeding (Standard EC)
PH Recommendation – Standard 5.0 to 5.5 Common pests – Vine Weevil Common disease –
Species – glauca
