{"id":9331,"date":"2016-07-27T02:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T01:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2024-07-07T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T06:00:47","slug":"growing-succulents-and-cacti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/growing-succulents-and-cacti\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Succulents And Hawarthia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cacti by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/3954601983\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2619\/3954601983_e399aa632d.jpg\" alt=\"Cacti\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What are Succulents<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Succulents are a wide group of plants that have evolved from ancient tropical forests to combat the feast and famine of water supply.<\/li>\n<li>Succus is the latin for juice.\u00c2\u00a0 Succulent plants have \u00c2\u00a0 stems,branches, roots, stalks, leaves or flowers that are juicy, fleshy or thick to retain moisture.<\/li>\n<li>Parts of succulents above the ground act as reservoirs of water.<\/li>\n<li>Succulents are varied plants not one or even related groups or families of plants.<\/li>\n<li>All cacti are succulents but all succulents are not Cacti.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How do Succulents Preserve\u00a0 Water<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many succulents including cacti do not grow leaves reducing transpiration.<\/li>\n<li>Thick leaves have space to store far more water than other leaves such as Aloe.<\/li>\n<li>Some plants can be pulled underground to preserve water.<\/li>\n<li>Minimum evaporation is achieved by hairy, spiney or waxy outer layers.<\/li>\n<li>Shapes are developed to maximise retention and minimise water loss.<\/li>\n<li>Some plants have roots that grow in bundles on the soils surface to capture any available moisture<\/li>\n<li>Many Cacti breath oxygen at night and photosynthesis during the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Common Types or Groups Of Succulent<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/growing-sedum-spathulifolium\/\">Sedum <\/a>and Sempervivum<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/cactus-house-durham-botanic-garden\/\">Cactaceae<\/a> are divided into 3 sub families with over 200 genera and 10,000 species.<\/li>\n<li>Haworthia, Gasteria and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/easy-aloe-vera-plants\/\">Aloe<\/a> are succulents but part of the Lily family.<\/li>\n<li>Agave, Aeoniums, Echeveria, Lithrops and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4254\">Yucca <\/a>are succulents.<\/li>\n<li>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-and-collecting-euphorbias-spurge\/\">Euphorbias<\/a> and Cereus are succulent.<\/li>\n<li>Christmas and Easter Cacti,\u00c2\u00a0 Schlumbergera or Zygocactus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Tips for Growing Succulents and Cacti<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting the watering right is the key issue. All plants need water during their growing period.<\/li>\n<li>I water weekly in spring and early summer cutting down drastically by autumn leaving winter almost watering free.<\/li>\n<li>Good drainage is as important as watering. Most succulent prefer a free draining sandy or gritty soil. Do not stand in water.<\/li>\n<li>Keep most varieties free of frost.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a weak fertiliser solution in spring and early summer.<\/li>\n<li>Plants can be grown from seed and many root well from cuttings or grafting.<\/li>\n<li>Insects can be a problem but most die in high heat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Haworthia<\/h2>\n<p>Try these plants\u00a0 and study some of the literature from their native home South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Succulents Succulents are a wide group of plants that have evolved from ancient tropical forests to combat the feast and famine of water supply. Succus is the latin for juice.\u00c2\u00a0 Succulent plants have \u00c2\u00a0 stems,branches, roots, stalks, leaves or flowers that are juicy, fleshy or thick to retain moisture. Parts of succulents above the ground act as reservoirs of water. Succulents are varied plants not one or even related groups or families of plants. All cacti are succulents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/house-greenhouse-plants\/growing-succulents-and-cacti\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-greenhouse-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21525,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions\/21525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}