Echeveria Red Sky

Grown on site at Blue Spade Greenhouse.
Grown in a 3 inch pot.

Easy to maintain and make great gifts! Echeverias are fairly common outdoors but in the last few years, they've become very trendy modern indoor houseplants. Although native to semi-desert areas of Central America, Mexico and northwestern South America, they still do remarkably well as indoor plants. Like many other small succulents, it's common to find them being grown in unusual and visually arty pots and containers.

Light Requirments: Almost all Echeveria plants love bright light with some sunlight. They struggle in low light conditions and equally with constant direct intense sunlight, especially if your watering skills aren't up to scratch. Window ledges are a perfect location for your Echeveria, but if going for one which has a southern exposure try and give it some shielding and if you notice any damage move it immediately. Leaf damage from burns will not heal and because they grow slowly and keep hold of their leaves for long periods the burn will be there for a long time too.

Water Requirements: Out in the wild many succulents are adapted and used to heavy downpours and then a fairly long period before the next one. Lots of their traits, such as thick fleshy leaves and the way they direct water directly down to the roots all help with this. Echeverias like good deep through watering occasionally then a wait until they dry out, either mostly or completely. They aren't cacti though, so they shouldn't be deprived of water for excessive periods. As a rough guide we treat ours as follows:
-From Spring to Summer water deeply and regularly whenever the soil almost dries out.
-From late Fall to Winter, water less deeply and wait until the soil dries out fully.

Food Requirements: Although these are small plants with low rates of growth, it might be surprising to know that they do respond well to feeding. A normal liquid houseplant fertiliser that's been diluted by half every month or every other month is OK.

**Taken from https://www.ourhouseplants.com/plants/echeveria