Terrarium Trimming

First, I want to apologize for disappearing briefly. Having missed a couple of days of posts due to a crazy work week which included some travel, I'm back and eager to talk about plants and the garden again. With temperatures expected to get into the 60's F for a few days later this week, I should actually have the motivation to get out into the yard to take some photos too.

But first, I finally decided to do something about the somewhat overgrown terrarium. Remember, I look at this every time I get on the treadmill, and it was really starting to bother me.

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The only thing I saw as a problem was the Echeveria:

It had formed so many offsets, and two of them were blocking other plants significantly:

Plus they were just out of scale with everything else, and looking fairly ugly from certain angles:

I decided that the two big rosettes in the front needed to be removed, so I got out the pruners and snipped them off:

Although that certainly made more room for the other plants, it left a lot of dead foliage very visible:

So I just pulled it all off. Not having any experience with Echeverias, I don't know if this was the right thing to do, but I suspect it was as I usually see these in photos with bare stems.

The leaf is perfectly blocking it... Here it is from a lower angle:

I suspect that more offsets may form now, but we'll see.

The terrarium looks much better now:

I expect the small offsets to start growing, now that they will be getting more light.

Plus now I have a couple of big cuttings to root:

Those will make impressive specimens on the deck this summer. I wonder how big they will get?

So now I can enjoy my exercise, unmolested by this terrarium task.


Just for fun, this is what the terrarium looked like when first planted three years ago:

A bit of a change, right?


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