February 1, 2024 Cottage Butterfly Garden succulent container garden tour in Houston Tx zone 9a/b

February 1, 2024 Cottage Butterfly Garden succulent flower pot tour in Houston Tx zone 9a/b

Hey everybody this is Joe I’m here in my Houston Garden and I’m in zone 9 A/B and it’s the 1st of February and I thought I would give you a look at just my succulent pots um everything else we had to freeze about two weeks ago and so

I took all the flower pots in put them in the garage and uh and they’re they’re still sort of out there and I have a bunch uh if they were uh if they were succulents oh Missed Out Fire hello if they were succulents I put them in the

Kitchen and that’s the kitchen door so we’ve left there’s two more the last average frost date for Houston is February 15th and so which a a couple years ago we had a terrible freeze after that Frost dat but uh just in case I have left all of these things here

Instead of putting them sort of where they live um out in the garden uh so that I can get them back in the kitchen if need be but I thought I would show you some of them are really they’re really looking pretty and they’re getting ready to bloom um and also you

Can see uh I just talked about this in another video the mess right that I have in the gravel I’m thinking about this is a pocket Prairie for the spring because it’s got uh Native Texas blue bonnets it’s got a little lks spur it’s got something called cudweed way too much of

That um and and I’ve thrown some other things in here I’m hoping this will be like a little Prairie just amongst the flower pots for the spring um and then I’ll clean it up and have a nice tidy walkway um the rest of the time but of course I’ve got tons of wild

Flowers along here and wild flowers All Along The Edge sort of by Mrs D fire down this way and so I I love it when it’s full of wild flowers I also love it when it’s really tidy and there are no weeds at all and so I kind of go between

The two and then there’s messy where it’s too hot and I don’t mess with it so let me show you uh the succulent theater I’m going to show you the things up here first that don’t actually live in the succulent theater they live elsewhere in

The yard um but are here for a couple more weeks I love the strawberry pot and then that’s a colano and they’re all getting ready to bloom this colano that’s the first one and then I’m trying to do something more interesting this stuff is so prolific this um ghost plant is so

Prolific I’ve put some more little cuting in and then I have so many I can’t pass up a colano and my mother uh passed down a bunch of them to me and then I also can’t pass them up in the in the store and so you can see this uh colano is

Getting ready to bloom really beautifully more colos and then I don’t know the name of this it’s like a jade plant but little and um and it kind of as a weeping uh manner to it and I think it looks nice uh usually lives on that

Bench over there and so I like that it hangs down down um and it’s really pretty here’s another one of my favorites some of them it’s nice they really Bloom this is this is the ghost plant but then I’ve got a couple little things mixed in and there one of them is

Blooming and then this so scruffy so scruffy I it needs work and then of course another gigantic colano look it’s incredible so many flower spikes and I’ve got jade plant I bought this one in the fall my daughter was like wow Mom that one looks amazing and I was

Like I just bought it that’s not my work that is some professional Growers work that’s why it’s so perfect and I love the pot it’s in look at this cool pot all green and mossy I just love that pot and then this I was thinking about this earlier this

Is an enormous jade plant um that I’ve had I bought it a garage sale maybe even 25 years ago um and uh it broke a whole bunch of it broke a couple of years ago maybe just two years ago so this whole pot is just the top so imagine this

Chunk of Jade was on top of that and I just sat it in there and crossed my fingers and it did take take root and so um it it’s just such a pretty and I love the shape of it and it was that shape was is really beautiful on the top of a

Big trunk um which it was such a bummer for that thing to break apart and then I love this little pot again look at this cute pot oh my goodness right and all of its wonderful little business and then this stuff I have it’s like it finally took hold and now I have

Maybe almost too much of it oh they’ve closed I was going to show you these earlier they’ve closed for the day a little yellow flowers but the thing about this um sort of the small small version of the jade plant really all of it is that you can

Just break it off I just literally these three little prongs right here I just chopped off of that big one a couple months ago and just stuck them in the ground stuck them in the pot and they look great and it’s the same for this one right there just cuting off of

That and here I seem to be wandering past a lot of things let me go back here so I’ve got wonderful some of these alows do so well in Houston and then these with the little fuzzy leaves um they do really well as long as you don’t water them I surprised these

Look so good after all the rain we’ve had and then these big ones with the big paddle shaped leaves do well for me and then we had a real problem because the cats inside want to chew on that so it was very tricky during the freeze we had

To put those way up high where the cats couldn’t get to them and then this again these are just cuting and then this thing is amazing and it’s getting ready to bloom look it’s going to be orange isn’t that fabulous and then one of these broke off

And it was all rotten on one end and so I cut it in half and I thought I wonder and I just sat the cut piece down and I don’t know if you can tell I’m pulling on that that rooted just from the middle I thought they would only root from the

Edge Edge the sort of bottom node of the leaf but that thing rooted uh from the middle of the leaf when I just cut it with a with a a knife and so we’ll kind of see I’ll keep you updated and see if it actually turns into a plant and what

Happens and I love this with so many different colors the gray with the pink Edge and then the sort of blue gray and then this spiky business here with the little white on the edges little white dots and then this one here it’s one of those fuzzy ones and then I’ve got my

Little my overachiever but I love having that a little combination of shapes and colors and um and uh even the the way they grow like this one hangs down this one looks so ratty I’m thinking that is either snails that did that but it seems like maybe that took the brunt of

The little hail that we had here’s the pot that never looks good it never ever ever ever looks good and so we’re skipping it I’m just going to keep moving here is another chunk that broke off whilst we were moving things I think that’s where that came from but I’m

Going to pot that up later another incredible aloe that when it gets cold it has a little bit of a of a pink maroon tip to it and again I just love putting different oh goodness pardon the airplane noise I love putting different colors and shapes of leaf

Together and I am very uh very drawn to the the gray green colors but just to have those different shapes and then have a pop of that lime green and then this one’s getting ready to bloom I think that’s that’s got to be a bloom Spike another one that looks pretty

Pitiful these looked so great and then looked terrible and now they seem to be coming back they’re the little fuzzy ones don’t water them they like to be really dry and this clearly this is the little business that is very very happy here because there’s so much of it it once it

Took off it seems to be hard to get started in a pot but once I get it started then it kind of goes nuts and you can see there’s little places that I’ve got little violas I put seeds in a lot of these pots this is this was still

That wasn’t the whole that wasn’t the original trunk that was just an arm of it and so one branch so it was so sad when that thing fell apart and then this they always have color but look how incredible when it got chil um they just do so well and I love the

Combo of the inner blue green and the outer maroon I love that ghost plant in a tiny little uh another little strawberry pot although it’s so small I don’t think you could really grow strawberries in it and I do love this hanging down with the little a little jade plant and another little

Baby hiding in there it’s gotten a little covered up and this combination oh look at that I love this with this bright bright and the dark green and then it’s getting ready I don’t remember what color this is it’s likely pink um little colanto and then of course the giant

Aloe vera that uh if you saw an earlier video you saw it blooming but in the garage during the freeze uh this massive Bloom Spike and I’m trying to get some of the gray to grow underneath and if I can get the gray to hang down all the way around I think

It’ be really cool that’s my goal and then I’ll end on this I love this pot and the pot itself is such a funky pot I love it and it’s it is Mossy but it’s such a great shape nicely decorated and then it’s got the giant paddles Which I love so

Pretty the green gray green and then this little dude sitting in here and I think this is so neat how it’s coming up new babies down there I hope you guys have enjoyed this little look at the succulents and um I will do a in the spring when things are

Prettier I will do a nice uh look at the pots the rest of the pots but right now they’re pretty scruffy I hope you guys have a great uh beginning of the Fe beginning of February and that you’re able to get out and work in your garden y’all take care bye-bye