I have been looking at literally hundreds of them and I have a very important question for what I want to do. I want to set up a large tray, maybe 3x4 foot or 4x5 foot and set up what might be called a succulent indoor garden. This is supposed to be a garden in the idea that everything stays in it's own place and doesn't get too large or too long. I looked at a lot of Crassula but they all seem to get rather large. I also looked at some others but haven't had much luck with finding anything that stays compact except for living rocks. Can anyone help with a list of succulents that will grow indoors but only occupy a space about 4"x4" so I can really make a true "garden" effect with them? Can I simply keep the Crassula trimmed and have them create huge stems/trunks so I can use them? Here are the ones I have found, will any of them work for any of what I want to do: Crassula finger, Gollum, hobbit, hummels sunset, high voltage, brevafolia, buddhas temple, columella, dorothy, marchandii, Gasteria brevafolia Haworthia baccata Cymbiformis V. Angustata Haworthia truncata living rocks argyroderma or baby toes Aeonium Sedifolium Please, anyone with ideas for compact succulents or ones that can be trained that way let me know. I want to have this set up to start here by the end of the year or at the latest early spring. I may have a way to get a whole bunch of cuttings from many different ones but I don't want to get a bunch I can't use.
What an exciting idea! Sounds like you're going to have lots of fun in your succulent garden. I'm not good with succulents at all. The small ones we've had here have always grown fast and have gotten big too, despite their dainty appearance in the shop. You've done some thorough research, and I really hope this will work out for you.
Well have comprised a much larger list so if anyone has any of them please let me know if they stay small or can be trained to stay small: Conophytum Meyernai Conophytum Minutum Cotyledon Tomentosa Crassula Brevifolia Crassula Columella Crassula Dorothy Crassula Finger Crassula Gollum Crassula High Voltage Crassula Hobbit Crassula Marchandii Crassula Susannae Cymbiformis V. Angustata Echevaria Doris Taylor Echevaria Multicaulus Euphorbia Flanaganii Euphorbia Suzannae Euphorbia V. Cristata Fauearia Madisgascariensis Gasteria Brevafolia Graptoveria Amethorum Haworthia Baccata Haworthia Coarctata V Greenii Haworthia Cooperi Haworthia Cymbiformis V. Angustata Haworthia Elizeae Haworthia Herbacea Haworthia Reinwardtii Haworthia Retusa Haworthia Truncata Haworthia Viscosa Lapidaria Maragaethae Lithops Olivacea Pachyveria Royal Flush Stomatium Agninum V. Integrifolium Stomatium Beaufortense Stomatium Niveum Stomatium Suaveolens
Sounds like a good project you are taking on Fish. I have Echeveria 'Doris Taylor'. Here is a photo of it when I first started it off in July 2004. It now fills that pot which is about 8" in dia with loads of baby plants.
I have to go through your succulents one at a time, since I don't know the scientific name for the ones I've grown. The Echeverias we've had, have grown rather tall and put out branches. I really like the Faucaria. It was very decorative, but I can't keep them alive. Our Pachyveria grew fast, dropped the bottom "leaves" and got leggy. I had the Stomatium niveum once. It grew slowly for me, and was very decorative.
