Succulents: Hinxton to Peru

Following the Great Scorch of 2019, not only did we not have a hosepipe or a connected outdoor tap, the ground literally felt like hot coals underfoot. We tried our best schlepping buckets of water from the kitchen sink to each and every plant but our attempts looked meek at the best of times! Exhausted by this and looking at the poor excuse of our dead hanging baskets, I needed another solution - as lets face it, with all this global warming, we're likely to keep getting hotter year on year. Keywords on my mind one humid evening - LOW - MAINTENANCE - DROUGHT - RESISTANT - PLANTS...

....So basically a desert.

So now I have a few dotted around, all planted in 2019 and so far, all alive! Hurrah! I picked up a few succulents from the garden centre and initially wanted to make a "dry hanging basket" (trying to be smart again and avoid the watering) but in all honestly it looked barren (-which i guess is the desert look). Worse still, I couldn't be bothered to move them so I spent the rest of the year looking down on the idea that was never to be.

BUT, this year with a little fire In my belly and the determination to have bangin' baskets once again, I relocated the succulents - amazingly they survived the winter (and no watering). They now reside happily in between the blue grass and the daisy plant. Full sun and boy do they love it (i.e. they are not dead yet).

#lifestyle #reinventyourself #thenewyou

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