8 genera · 11 species files · 6 care guides · 5 propagation logs
One balcony, written down as a shelf
Every plant on this page is a real pot in one collection, and every figure on its tile was drawn from
that plant's own parameters: petal count, ring count, mature diameter. Light is written in lux rather
than "bright indirect", watering is written in days rather than "when dry", and substrate is written as
a volume ratio you can actually measure. Tiles run widest rosette first — Curio rowleyanus at
90 cm opens the wall, Haworthia cooperi var. truncata at
7 cm closes it.
String of pearls
- Form
- trailing
- Water
- 20 d
- Zone
- 9b–11 (damage below 0 °C)
- Mix
- 3 pumice : 1 akadama : 1 coco coir — deliberately lean
- Rest
- Rest period June to August; expect almost no growth in the hottest weeks
Jade plant
- Form
- open
- Water
- 21 d
- Zone
- 10–11 (frost-tender below 2 °C)
- Mix
- 1 pumice : 1 akadama : 1 bark fines, by volume
- Rest
- Rest period November to February; flowers need 8–10 °C nights in that window
String of buttons
- Form
- stacked
- Water
- 15 d
- Zone
- 9b–11 (damaged below −1 °C)
- Mix
- 2 pumice : 1 akadama : 1 grit, by volume
- Rest
- Slows below 8 °C but keeps colour; red edges strongest December to March
Black rose aeonium
- Form
- spiral
- Water
- 10 d
- Zone
- 9b–11 (damaged below 0 °C)
- Mix
- 2 pumice : 1 akadama : 1 bark fines, by volume
- Rest
- Summer dormant from June to September — the rosettes close and the plant must be kept nearly dry
Perle von Nürnberg
- Form
- tight
- Water
- 13 d
- Zone
- 9b–11 (damaged below 0 °C)
- Mix
- 2 pumice : 1 akadama : 1 coco coir, by volume
- Rest
- Semi-dormant in the hottest six weeks; colour peaks December to February
Jelly bean plant
- Form
- open
- Water
- 14 d
- Zone
- 9a–11 (leaf damage near −4 °C)
- Mix
- 1 pumice : 1 grit : 1 potting bark, by volume
- Rest
- Genuinely dormant in winter below 10 °C; growth resumes in March
Ghost plant
- Form
- open
- Water
- 16 d
- Zone
- 9a–11 (leaf tips burn near −3 °C)
- Mix
- 2 pumice : 1 akadama : 1 bark fines, by volume
Moonstones
- Form
- open
- Water
- 17 d
- Zone
- 9b–11 (damaged below 0 °C)
- Mix
- 2 pumice : 1 akadama : 1 grit, by volume
Mexican snowball
- Form
- tight
- Water
- 12 d
- Zone
- 9b–11 (damaged below 0 °C)
- Mix
- 2 pumice : 1 akadama : 1 coco coir, by volume
Zebra plant
- Form
- columnar
- Water
- 18 d
- Zone
- 9b–11 (survives −2 °C if bone dry)
- Mix
- 1 pumice : 1 akadama : 1 granite grit — no organic component
- Rest
- No true dormancy; slows to a crawl in the July–August heat
Window Haworthia
- Form
- stacked
- Water
- 16 d
- Zone
- 10–11 (protect below 5 °C)
- Mix
- 1 akadama : 1 pumice : 1 kanuma, 2–4 mm
Timing rather than parameters. Each guide covers one season and one job — repotting, summer
withholding, etiolation rescue — and ends on a twelve-row task table.
Dated batches with the numbers left in: how many leaves went down, how long callus and roots took,
how many pups came back, and what the failure rate actually was.
Browse by genus
The collection spans 8 genera, and the genera do not want the same winter. Genus pages collect
every species file in that group and state the dormancy window that applies to all of them.
