Echeveria 'Sunset Peony'
Echeveria 'Sunset Peony'
Echeveria 'Sunset Peony' quick care tips
Watering
Watering
Echeveria 'Sunset Peony' is a drought-tolerant succulent variety, so watering around once per week in the peak growing season is advised. Ensure the soil dries between waterings. It is also advised to completely stop watering when conditions are frosty, keeping the plant dry for several months at a time.
Feeding
Feeding
Echeveria 'Sunset Peony' likes to be fed to bring out its best forms and colours. We recommend feeding with a liquid seaweed feed every 2 weeks in the main growing season from April to September. A feed we recommend is the one from our friends at LittleGreenSeaweed.
Ideal soil
Ideal soil
Echeveria 'Sunset Peony' needs free draining soil to thrive. We recommend a mixture of 1/3 John Innes no.2, 1/3 perlite and 1/3 coconut coir. The soil mix we offer here is similar in composition to this. Adding extra grit may be useful to add even more drainage for these desert-dwellers.
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Echeveria 'Sunset Peony'
Echeveria 'Sunset Peony' is a very rare variegated Echeveria, it produces these lovely glaucous leaves, each leaf has green centres with two delicious strips of yellow running down each side. In good light, the outer leaf margins pick up a super stunning red tinge. Altogether, this plant looks and is beautiful.
We have found it to be a strong grower and it will offset in time, it makes the most beautiful specimen plant.
Difficulty
IntermediateFeatured Colour
Cyan, Pink, and YellowGrowth Form
Singular rosetteGrowth Rate
ModerateMinimum Temperature
-2°CMaximum Height & Spread
30 cm x 30 cmIdeal Environment for Echeveria 'Sunset Peony'
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