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How to grow Jade Plant Crassula Gollum or Portulacea for dry landscapes or Easy Houseplants
Gollum Jade or Spoon Jade succulent plants are excellent choices for dry gardens. These plants are easy to grow in the warm dry and indoor plants also make great. Their care is similar to cactus (No thorns). One of my favorite succulents is named Crassula portulacea, commonly called Jade horseshoe or a spoon. Recently they have been called Gollum fingers, plant or ET Hobbit fingers because their dark green leaves with pointed finger-like red. These plants can take full sun to partial shade. They are happy indoors or outdoors, in the ground or in containers.
Crassula portulacea wise water as the heat and sun whether you grow in or on the patio. They are so easy to look like its cousin, Crassula ovata. Both the succulent plants can take up to six hours of sun per day. If they develop yellow or brown spots on leaves, it is either stress or sunburn. If you are in a pot, move to an area with less sun. If you are outdoors, try to give them a nice bath and encouraged.
It is grown in pots Jade Spoon remain small and are often used for bonsai. They grow slowly and can be adjusted as the trees. In the field that will eventually reach a height of 4 to 5 feet tall. Older plants having a different world, look twisted.
I love succulents because they are easy to grow and free care. They are great if you do not have time to fuss over a plant. Crassula happily oblige and even produce blooms in later winter. This increases its value as a landscape plant in my book and winter flowering plants are rare. They produce flower clusters that look like tiny bouquets of daisies. Bloom color can range from light to dark pink, some have a salmon / Orange tint. The plant started as a small cut two years ago is growing for the first time this year. Established plants should bloom reliably each year.
They are called succulent plants because they store water in their stems and leaves. This allows them to survive with little water. All that stored water can make susceptible to rot if they sit in a pool of wet earth. Let the soil dry out between watering to keep them happy. Crassula are best grown in USDA zones 9b – 11.
Normally, the plants in my garden of succulents are able to take a light frost for a few hours. This year we had freezing nights for a few days in a row and the upper third of my feet became frozen and brown. The stems that survived are now sprouting new leaves. They need overhead protection in winter if in a cold area. They are also more likely to survive frost if the plants have been kept on the dry side.
Xeriscape with cactus and drought tolerant succulents has become popular out here in the southwest where we sometimes have rationing and water shortages. These succulent plants add a touch dramatic and resemble a kind of sea plant or coral to me. Crassula "> For photos of the visit Crassula http://www.theGardenPages.com to see photos and read more. Crassula are and easy and reliable addition to any garden water-wise.
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Laura Zinkan is a writer in California. She cultivates a gardening site at http://www.theGardenPages.com with plant profiles, growing tips about succulents and native plants.
She also cooks up http://www.MomsRetro.com where you can find retro art and kitchen tips for busy cooks. 2009 by Laura Zinkan. Article may be reprinted if author credit is given with a website link. All rights reserved.
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