Echeveria
Echeveria sp. · Garden flowers
Echeveria in flower
Goodnestone, 1 June 2024
An echeveria sending up a wiry red stalk hung with small bells in coral and yellow, unremarkable next to the leaves - which is usually how it goes with succulents. In Mexico the flowers are built for hummingbirds, which is why they are tubular, red and held well out from the rosette on a stem. In an English garden nothing here has the tongue for them, and the plant sets no seed.
Echeveria rosette
Goodnestone, 1 June 2024
A succulent rosette, red-edged where the leaf margins catch the most sun. Not hardy through an English winter, so almost certainly grown in a pot and brought out for the summer. The red is sunscreen: echeverias make the pigment in strong light to protect the leaf, and a plant kept indoors goes plain blue-green. Mexican, and named for Atanasio Echeverría, the botanical artist who drew the plants for a Spanish expedition in the 1790s.
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