| Aloes succulents and fat plants grow easy
indoors in pots or containers. Good drainage and strong light is all that they need. Here
are two different indoor gardens. A succulent indoor garden in a flat container with
mainly fat plants from South Africa and a desert garden in a bowl with succulents and
aloes from Namibia. The soil mix contains dolomite
gravel, coarse sand and soil. A very weak plant food is given every 6 months with a
sprinkling of a few Magnesium sulphate crystal between the plants. (A quarter
teaspoon at the most.)
 click on the photo to enlarge.
The succulent plants in this indoor garden from South Africa. The white plant at
the back is a Cotyledon, next row from the left is Aloe davyana, Aloe hybrid in the center
and to the right back. Front row from the left is Euphorbia mammilaris. Gasteria
species, Gasteria x Aloe hybrid and a group of Aloe brevifolia plants. The ground
cover is two Crassula sp. The container is watered thoroughly and then
permitted to dry out.
 click on the photo to enlarge. This
is a desert garden with plants from Namibia. The back row left to right:- mesemb,
Tylecodon species, Aloe variegata, Euphorbia gariepina. Front left to right:- mesemb,
Cotyledon species, the small plants are Euphorbia juttae, Aloe melanacantha and the small
plant to the right of Aloe melanacantha is Anacampseros buderiana. This garden receives
only enough rain water to damp the soil. It is then permitted to dry out. It
may be necessary to merge the bowl in rain water once a year to rinse out salts or better
would be to replace the growing medium with a fresh mix.
For more information and tips see cultivating succulent plants
in pots and containers. |
