Great Takeaways from Jeanne Meadow’s Garden Amazing tips

Wavy-leaved ‘Cornelius’ is Jeanne’s favorite agave. “It doesn’t get too big, can handle full sun and cold, and always looks good,” she says.

No one celebrates the joy of succulents quite like Jeanne Meadow. She’s gleeful about their shapes and colors, delights in adding them to garden beds, and collects art pots to hold choice specimens. Jeanne’s succulent garden in Fallbrook, CA, is featured in my book, Designing with Succulents (2nd ed.); I did an article about it for Better Homes & Gardens; and to date she and I have collaborated on ten YouTube videos.

I’m pleased to announce the release this week on my YouTube channel of two new videos: Jeanne Meadow’s Succulent Garden, Tips and Tour, Parts One and Two. Here are ten great takeaways.

Jeanne’s succulent-planted fountain has a “splash zone” of string of bananas (Senecio radicans). She’s allowed it to root in the gravel.

 

Plant an aloe outside your dining room window so you can enjoy its blooms and watch hummingbirds come to them.

 

Unlike many gardeners, Jeanne doesn’t consider “mother of thousands” kalanchoes weeds. “They pop up everywhere, but they’re easy to pull,” she says. “And the flowers are gorgeous.”

 

Assemble a palette of topdressings to choose among. Collecting and displaying them is part of the fun. At right, a stack of planted pots appears to be tipping over. They’re aligned on 3/4-inch rebar that goes into the ground four feet.

 

To successfully grow a succulent prone to rot like Echeveria agavoides ‘Black Knight’, plant it atop a mound of rocks so roots never sit in water.

 

If you have a magnificent specimen like Jeanne’s large Agave nickelsiae (formerly Agave ferdinandi-regis), give it stand-alone space so it can be seen and admired.

 

“If dead leaves don’t pull off easily, it means the plant wants to keep them,” Jeanne says of her Aloe marlothii. “The trunk is sensitive and they help protect it.”

 

If you’re lucky enough to have a colorful mangave with translucent leaves (like ‘Kaleidoscope’), put it in a tall pot so it can be seen from all directions and sunlight will make it glow.

 

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Jeanne Meadow’s Succulents (Playlist) 

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