This is a pretty lengthy response, I told you already, I am obsessed! Feel free to scroll right to the pics!
@Moonraingirl, thanks so much for sharing your pics with me! I love your Christmas Rose! We call those a Christmas cactus, my mom keeps one as well. She's planning to bring me some cuttings this week so I can grow my own. I'm hoping to grow several and give them away as Christmas presents, lol!
@BWulf, I had no idea it was dangerous for birds! So sorry to hear that happened to your babies!
The second I recognize as well, it's also a cactus. It's called a euphorbia trigona, also known as the African milk cactus! I had no idea it could get so tall! I have a small "royal red" version. The sap inside of it is dangerous, it can irritate the skin and cause temporary blindness. It looks like on the bottom right yours is showing some sunburn. (The yellow miscoloring on the bottom). If it's been there a while it could be okay and the plant has already recovered internally.
The last two I'm not familiar with. But they all look pretty happy and healthy!
I have collected quite a few succulents over the last year! Most of mine I keep facing south, inside and out. I had one that I had facing north, which was on my front porch, and so it was partly shaded and it made the Aloe Vera stretch out rather than up to try and reach the sun, but otherwise the rest of the pants did fine. Here are the ones on the back porch facing south, last fall, before they had to move inside.
I have 3 kinds of aloe, aloe vera, lace aloe, and tiger tooth aloe. All 3 have had "pups"!
My lace Aloe is my favorite aloe for sure!
I also bought two different types of elephant bush witch grew in nicely, but I accidentally killed one in a cold snap. This is the one that has survived.
This beauty is called "Belladonna" supervivum. I bought it at a chain hardware store when it was mature and had already sprouted a stem and flower. It only does this at the end of its life when it's done producing "chicks" (aloe babies = pups and supervivum babies = chicks) so I cannot get any more from this plant, but I have enjoyed it's beauty regardless! The flower stem has died and I've cut it off, I except this ol' girl to die within the year.
These are the cactus I got last year from the same hardware store. They had glued fake little flowers on them, and I noticed that after sometime of having them planted, they were doing pretty poorly. Especially showing in areas around the little glued on fake flowers so I plucked them off and the cactus came back almost immediately! The tall fuzzy one is an "old man" cactus and I believe the smaller fuzzy white ones are as well, just much much younger. Where the tall "old man" is missing his hair is where the flower was glued on, I'm not sure if it will come back either.
This is my most recent creation, all recently purchased at a local gardening store and placed into a simple bowl. Each will grow and fill the bowl. Even the cactus, with enough sunlight and time, will make babies! This purchase is how I have discovered aoeniums, which look the most like flowers to me, and personally I find them gorgeous!!
Here is my last and favorite, a "black rose" aoenium. It's so simple and pretty, I just adore it! I have planted this one with a few others in what I'm calling a nursery. I'm hoping to get many more from this one!
Also, here is the nursery with some other newly purchased additions I'm hoping to grow for the offspring. It stays inside facing north during the week and on the weekends I set it outside for direct sun. The small one that looks like little green tongues is called gasteria. The purple/greenish rosettes are a species of supervivum, and the last sort of teal green bubbly one, I'm pretty sure is known as Pachyphytum hookeri.. I just call it hookeri.. lol!
Thanks for indulging me and my new hobby!
Rosie