Make a Gift Basket of Blue Echeverias
Above: Plant a basket with lovely echeverias to enhance an outdoor sitting area, as a tabletop centerpiece, or to give to a succulent-loving friend.
Find step-by-step directions for making a gift basket of echeverias in the video.
Is any plant lovelier than a ruffled echeveria? These rosette succulents are soaring in popularity, and new cultivars are being introduced all the time. Look for echeverias throughout my books and in many of my videos.
Which Echeverias Should You Use?
An excellent online source of echeverias is family-owned Mountain Crest Gardens. Many of MCG's plants for containers and garden beds are available in assortments, as solo specimens, and (to a limited extent) as cuttings.
Blue echeverias suggest blue roses
We may have brides partly to thank for the popularity of echeverias in floral applications. Bouquets that match the blue of a bride's eyes, and come in hues of aqua, dove, lilac, silvery pink or celadon. Echeverias offer sentimental value, too: They can be planted afterwards as living mementos of the occasion.
How to care for echeverias?
See my YouTube series featuring renowned Echeveria hybridizer and grower Dick Wright:
Echeverias #1: Meet Dick Wright
Echeverias #2: Dick Wright on Echeveria Hybrids (View photos of cultivars shown in this video on this site.)
Echeverias #3: Dick Wright on How to Grow Echeverias
Please Note: Dick Wright wants to thank everyone who has contacted him as a result of the YouTube series. He's been swamped with inquiries, so please be patient. "It's wonderful, but I can't keep up with them all," he says. Providing a list of plants is difficult because, "I don't know what we'll have from week to week." His son Kraig is often away, so "I'm a crew of one," Dick adds with a laugh. Moreover he had an accident---cut his finger and had to go to the ER---but he's doing fine. "I heal real fast." Dick turned 90 in Sept., 2018.
Learn more About Echeverias ~
In My Books:
Designing with Succulents, pp. 208-211
Succulent Container Gardens, pp. 95-97
Succulents Simplified, pp. 162-169, Step-by-step: Make a Special Occasion Succulent Bouquet of Echeverias and Roses:
My Online Class:
My YouTube Channel's Echeveria Playlist:
Go to the Echeveria page of my site
Echeveria Info, Photos & Varieties
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I want to share this article, & its included videos, with other gardeners . . . but, have just noticed that the video’s audios are mostly static. I can’t understand what is being said at all, as the voices are muffled (& sometimes worse) by it. I hope something can be done to fix it, as I’m sure we’d all benefit from hearing what they’re sharing!!! (;
Hi Pam — Audio is always a challenge for me. I don’t know how to diagnose the issues you’re experiencing, but I do know (with no small sense of relief) that the videos have had thousands of views with no complaints.