Early Xmas or Birthday Presents

I bought these - 6 lithops and an Echeveria purpusorum white form - with present money from Mum and Dad. They're from Etsy, and the new Post Office route must have come into force because these only took 9 days to get here, from Barcelona. I decided to bring them home to put in pots, and not wait until Xmas or my birthday.

More New Plants!

I got this lot from the same Etsy seller from the Canaries I bought from recently. He included two free plants, and a few plant labels. He also identified each plant, which is very helpful!

I now only have the larger terracotta pots, so I potted most of them in those. I put the sedums (bottom right of the photo) in a plastic hanging pot. I didn't want to put the festraria (bottom left of photo) in a large pot, and had a look around for something I could use. I knew I had a ceramic teapot with flowers in the corner cupboard in the living room, but it takes so long to drill a hole in ceramic I didn't want to use that. There was a tall terracotta vase, but that wasn't any good - the top is too narrow. Then I moved a doll ... and behind it was this pot with paper flowers, I didn't even remember owning!

It took me longer to remove the bits of stuck on glue gun glue than to drill the hole in the bottom of the pot! Turned out to be the perfect size for the fenestraria (baby toes).

I'm going to wait until the weekend to water the new plants, and then try and find where to put them all! I was thinking of getting rid of the desk - which I never use - and putting the second set of shelves beside the ones I'm using now ...

Seeds

I got these four packets of seeds today. I bought them from Walawala Succulent Studio on Etsy. The seeds are so tiny, I had a bit of trouble getting them out of the packets! I've sown the seeds in little pots and fingers crossed they'll germinate.