My Orange Love
My favorite today: Pachyveria 'Cinderella'
First of all, I love orange, but when it is in combination with cobalt, the color combination becomes irresistible. As you guessed, colors are the main focus of this post. ❤️🧡💚💜💙
So, here we have a typical, but not really, pachyveria. Typical is the shape, but atypical is its color. 🤩 Many of my plants are growing under grow lights that intensify their stress colors. This pachyveria Cinderella does not receive additional light. It naturally turns orange 🍊 during the cold ❄️ part of the year.
I expect it to lose its color intensity over the next few months because, in summer, many succulents turn green. 🌵 When I received it in February of last year, it had a good size and branch structure, but its color was grayish and not attractive at all. 🧐 I know nothing about its growing conditions before it got here, but it is possible that at a certain time in the year, it turns this grayish color again. 🙄Although, I hope it does not fully return to this color at the end of the summer. 🙏 However, even if it does, I already know that winter will give it this gorgeous orange back! 😍
The small-leafed plant that accompanies Cinderella is called Sedum divergens. This plant is just starting to show its stressed color. Eventually, I expect it to become fully red. 🐞 This red will be more intense than Cinderella's orange. 😍 It is interesting to see the color transformations of these succulents over time.🤩The sedum may have its most vivid red at the end of summer when the pachyveria's color intensity reduces. 🤓
About the pot - it has a good-sized hole in the bottom and I am happy that I did not have to drill it! 🥳 Its inside diameter at the top is 8".
AND I am in love with its shape, color, and overall design! 😍