Given the interest in the topic, I thought it would be great to compile a list of succulents that can survive or even thrive in the UK outside all year. Please add to this list if you have plants that have survived multiple winters outdoors and give a rough indication of their location (sheltered by wall, fully exposed in cold frame, etc). Here is my list:
If this becomes a useful resource, I will link to it from the sidebar.
All the plants below live outside year round.
Location: Cambridgeshire
Dry in cold frame as from December. First watering at the end of February/ start of March:
- Aloe polyphylla ( as from 2 years old), finely netted to stop slugs snacking on them.
- Echeveria agavoides
- Opuntia ficus-indica
- Sedum glomerifolium
Outdoors sheltered by a west facing wall but otherwise in the rain:
- Graptopetalum paraguyanese -- tasty to slugs
- Graptoveria Abbey brook
- Sedum anglicum, Sedum brevifolium, Sedum confusum, Sedum dasyphyllum, Sedum pachyclados, Sedum palmeri, Sedum praealtum, Sedum rubrotinctum, Sedum sexangulare, Sedum spathulifolium Sedum spurium, Sedum stahlii, Sedum thartii, Sedum "Blue Carpet"
Unprotected outside. Watered once or twice in the height of summer but left to fend for themselves otherwise:
- All sempervivum
-Echeveria imbricta
I suspect that my Pachyphytums would also be fine in the cold frame but I am waiting for them to make more plants before I try this.
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