It is always difficult to buy many beautiful succulents at once, because each of them are more than £5 and some are even over £30! I am always wondering how to get them at a reasonable price for decorating my garden and planters. Of course we can buy it one by one and grow them gradually for fun. But don't you ever think to get 1000 succulent within £5?
Succulents and cacti from seeds
This is about growing advice of succulents from seeds. I don't want to spread it too much because everyone one become professional in this area. But I risk it, because it is so much pleaseure to see the tiny cactus or succulents growing from microsize seeds. I just want to share that ultimate fun with you. Of course I have to write the down side. Succulent (cacti and caudex as well) grow very slowly compared with general flowers and vegetables. It won't become tall as a sunflower or fat as a turnip by year unfortunately. Nevertheless I always admire my plants, especially when I grew them from seeds and seedlings, because I know them from the tiny baby period. If you are not keen on that process, please just skip this article and order the plants from succulent nurseries like us. That is a time and effort saving way.
Which company to choose from?
1st of all, the choice of company is very important. I ordered many seeds from several different places, even from the US, Germany and Japan. I also ordered through major platforms like Amazon, eBay, etc. Unfortunately, not always good experiences I got, even with very famous and popular markets. One of the companies sent me Basil seeds as a Green necklace (Senecio Rawreyanus) and when I claimed back to them, they sent me morning glory seeds!! Another scam sent me dandelion seeds as rare alpine flower seeds. I don't want you to get these experiences because it takes time to know if the seed is really the wrong seed or not until you grow them.
Here, I picked a few very sincere honest companies dealing with succulents and caudex seeds.
1) WorldWondersGarden.co.uk
https://www.worldwondersgardens.co.uk/
They are dealing with so much variety of seeds at a very good price. I often use them and very good germination rates in general. Of course some of the species have a naturally very low survival rate and it is hard to control it even professionals. Although, the quality of this company's seeds are excellent!
2) Mesa Garden
https://mesagarden.com/
Mesa Garden is famous for the magnitude of variety, especially Mesemb. You will see that almost all plants are absolutely unique and cannot be found easily in the UK. It will cost some postage fee because this comes from the US but worth trying if you would like to increase your collection dramatically.
3) Adenium Store
https://www.adeniumstore.com/
Did you know the Adenium seeds have almost a 100% germination rate!! When I grew them for the first time I was so excited to see the growth of all the seedlings. I really felt I am so good at growing them. I recommend, if you have already tried any succulent seeds to grow and couldn't let them survive, please try adenium. You will get back your confidence.
4) Chiltern Seeds
https://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/
I haven't ordered from this company yet but heard lots of good reviews from my friends and family. They are dealing with not only succulents but also lots of other exotic seeds and I love to try many of them this season.
I would like to stop today around here, and next talk is about How to Grow seeds and seedlings efficiently.
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