I'm Debra Lee Baldwin
in my garden
with a succulent color wheel
that I made for my Craftsy class.
Now these are living plants
They grow, and you should
expect that. And this is how
it looks two years later.
I don't want you to feel
discouraged if your plants
have grown and they look
kind of messy. Because it
just means it's time to cut
back. And the good news
is you get all these great
cuttings as a result.
It's like a giant pizza!
Here's what it looks like
underneath, all the roots.
This is for cuttings.
I don't really want the flowers
So off it goes
Off with its head
A little bit of Morticia
pruning there.
The nice thing about
redoing a composition
is you get more plants
as a result. Where old
leaves were, new roots
are going to form.
So that's my cutting.
Check to make sure
there's no debris
And your cuttings
are ready to go.
This is just crazy big now.
It's Aloe humilis, one of my
favorite pot plants.
Little plants have sprouted
up around the mother
plant, and I can just pull
those apart.
This short-leaved blue senecio
is perfect for filler
And it's a very tough
little plant. I'm stripping
off any old, untidy, dead
leaves, making sure that
the top of the rosette
is in good shape.
You have two years of growth
on the underside of this
rosette. So just pull all of
those dead leaves off.
It was in a low-light condition
It was happy, but some of the
colors are not as intense.
Because it wasn't in bright light.
But some of the color wheel
plants like this one
on the sunnier side
are more orange.
Lots of the work here is
simply taking cuttings
stripping off lower leaves
to create a stem that you
can put back in the ground.
These are from Oasis nursery
They grow their plants
really well. I found
Crassula 'Campfire' but it
was green at the nursery
too. Maybe it's just the
time of the year, summer.
Here are my cuttings
ready to go.
I want the largest rosettes
That I harvested from my
cuttings pretty much upright
facing outward as much
as possible. Now most of
these plants are sold as
a lot of rooted cuttings.
So that's what I expect to
find when I pull this out
of here. There's a little too
much root ball there, so
that can be cut off.
Aim for perfection but settle.
And it's OK that these
are more of a pale orange
and not a a perfect
bright orange.
It looks like an aloe
but it's a gasteria.
Remove most of its
root ball. Looks like
it needs a drink of
water desperately.
It should be happy
in here. And because
it's tall, it's going to go
right up against the
sticks on fire and
help that to stay upright.
And look, it's all ready to go.
It's got its little whiskery roots.
The leaves of this really
want to fall off
And that's just true of
certain succulents.
Here we have our
replanted succulent
color wheel.
It looks really pretty.