Huge Succulent Unboxing! 😳🌵😍 // Garden Answer

Hey guys, how's it going? Today we are unboxing two big boxes full of succulents. These are from Mountain Crest Gardens. We have unboxed from them before, but it's been just a little while. And they were gracious enough to sponsor this video, which is so nice, so thank you for that. And they are hosting a giveaway, five $100 gift cards. We'll put all the details for the giveaway down below, and I'll get into that later. But for now, I just wanna get into these boxes. So if you guys have not experienced Mountain Crest Gardens before, they are based out of Northern California. They're a family-owned and operated business, which is big to me because, you know, that's how my family has their garden center. It's all family-owned and operated, which is amazing. And they told me they've been shipping succulents nationwide since, I think, 95. What does that make, 20, 28 years? I think 28 years shipping succulents, which is awesome. And most of them arrive potted up, rooted, and with an identification tag. I've had loads of things arrive here that I had no idea what the plants were called. There was no plant ID, so I really appreciate that big time. Okay, so getting into this first box, we've got some nice gift filler. I save this stuff and use it in my gift bags. People probably curse my name, but you know what? It's really, really handy, and I think it probably provides some insulation for these succulents. They actually have a ton of different hardy succulents. What, like a thousand? I think they've got over a thousand varieties all together. Oh my goodness. Oh, can you see that already? I think I'm gonna go get a trash bin and a table. I didn't even think about that, but I think having something to set plants on might be handy. Let me go do that. Okay. Let's unearth these beauties. Oh my goodness, they're so pretty. All right, let's get into this first box. Most of these, well, not most, but a lot of them are Sempervivum. So I'm gonna pull all of those out first, and I'll give you the variety names for all of those. So starting with this one right here, this is a Wendy. Love that little tight rosette. Feldmayer, Super Semp Amethyst. I can sense like a big succulent project coming on right now. This one is Emerald Spring. This one looks like one of these other ones, but it does not have a tag. I might find the tag in the box. So I'm gonna set this one to the side. Super Semp Emerald. Malbys Hybrid. That one just looks delicate and soft. Tembe, it's kind of a silver quality to it. Pink Lotus. Neptune. Oh, this next one's big. Gay Jester. Patent Leather Shoes. You guys, they will have mountaincrest.com slash garden answer. They're gonna have all of these varieties listed because, you know, just in case. And I think they're offering 15% off. There's gonna be a code on that page. So in case you're interested. This one's Hedgehog. Green Gables. That's a sweet name. Ooh, this one's wild. This one is Sebenese. Honigbod. They're gonna laugh at me when they hear me trying to pronounce some of these names. Honig, Honigmod. Gold Bug. Drachenblut. Or Drachenblut, I don't know. I wonder who names them all. Soul Sister. Raul Reif. That one's got, like, really cool edges on it. Kind of looks like, makes it look frosted. Super Semp Onyx. I've always liked this one. Arachnoid, Arachnoidium Bryoides. I like how little they are, and then they've got, like, a little bit of webbing in the center. Like, good fairy garden sort of plant, I think. Kono, or Kano. Geez Louise, there's so many gorgeous ones. Torrid Zone. Eureka. Mount Usher. That's a pretty one. Abbey. Rosa Madchen. Oh, boy. Favorite pile. That's gorgeous. Gray Friars. Jean D'Arc. How do you spell that? Here you go. Ooh, I like this one. Sprite. That looks like a miniature, like, is it a Victoria Agave? Is that right? Or, I don't know. Anyway, it's really pretty. Favorite pile. Ooh, I like this one a lot. This one's Nephetos. Look at that plant. So pretty. Okay, this might be our last simp in this box. This is a Red Zinger. All right, so, look at all of these. Definite favorites in this pile for me would be those three. I like this one quite a lot. This one's real pretty. Just, like, all my favorite piles. That's really hard to choose. This one's really pretty. Anyway, okay, I'm gonna move these all back and then we'll get into the next grouping of plants. How fun to have some fresh things like this. And it smells good in here. Can you guys see behind me that our hyacinths are starting to bloom? And there's not very many of them open yet, so it's not super strong and overwhelming. It smells like Erin was saying, a flower show. You walk into any flower show and it has that smell. And it does, it smells like a flower shop in spring or a flower show, it's awesome. It puts me in a real good mood. Okay, next group of plants, I'm gonna pull out all the echeverias that are in here. Starting with this one, which is a lolita. Painted echeveria. Those are so pretty. They almost look fake. Okay, I'm gonna just hold the tag up for this one. Bradberriana, perhaps. Brown rose. My mom would like this one a lot. Afterglow. This one's called Hercules, and it's got blooms on it. And those are some chubby leaves on that one. Orion. They're gonna laugh at me when they see me trying to pronounce some of these names. These are all really clean, too. I mean, I think we should note that. I mean, these aren't individually wrapped, they just have the filler paper around them. They arrive really nice. Ellora, E-L-O-R-A. You like that one? Yeah, it's a pretty, wow, the blooms are gorgeous. This one is Marom, M-A-R-O-M. Shaviana. Ponto Rosa. Oh, I like this next one. This is a setosa minor. Isn't that cool? Ooh, this is pretty. Water ripple. Okay, so those were the echeverias in the box, so I'll move those back. Okay, let's do crassulas next. This one is Silver Springtime. It's a really neat look. We've got Moonglow. And then this one is Abvalada. So three crassulas. We'll just go through the rest of these here. There's a few Haworthias. This one is Gorut's River Bridge. These are so easy to take care of. One of the most low-maintenance of them all. This one is a Magani Truncata. Pygmaea. There's a Graptoveria called Igrim One. Those are beautiful flowers. Graptosedum, Alpenglow. This is a Cetoveria called Blue Elf. Graptopetalum, Purple Delight. Pacoveria, Draco. Plamedium Hybrid. I've never had one of those before. That's exciting. And then a Calicia, Pink Lady. And that does it for our first box. Let me move these over and we'll get into the second one. So this box is taped on top of another one. Let's get this one off. Oh, wait a minute. What is this? Oh, this is a heat pack. It's still warm. Still like warm, warm. And that was on the side of the box that had the more tender succulents. All the stems were on this side and then the tender ones were on that side. Okay, box number two. Oh, okay. These are all in boxes and they all have a label. This is cactus on this side at least. Oh, I see a beautiful aloe. Oh, and something blooming in there. I'm gonna pull the sleeved ones out first. Oh my goodness. This is a purple haze aloe. Wow. The pink coloration on the edges there. Oh my gosh, that's pretty. This is an adromous, okay, nope, tag. Here we go. These are so chubby and cute. Look at this. I've not had one of those before. It's like a three-inch size pot, right? Do they consider this a four-inch size? I don't know. Aloinopsis, locophi, locophi. Topsy-turvy echeveria. That's gorgeous. A kalanchoe flapjack, right, flapjack plant? No, paddle plant. Ooh, what is this? Pondocliff crassula. The undersides of the leaves, oh my word. They are gorgeous. This is a senecio called a candle plant. They have leaves that look almost like ivy. Like, look at this one right here. A kalanchoe tarantula. Look at the color of those blooms. Oh my goodness. Hold on, I've gotta get the paper off this one. This might be the cutest plant in our whole thing. Crazy bunny ears. So cute. That is so cute. Oh my gosh. This is a crassula buddha's temple. Look at the top of it. Okay, now we've got a bunch of little boxes in here. Ooh, and each individually packed. Okay, aloinopsis rosulata. It looks like it's butted up, getting ready to do something. Okay, this was just labeled cactus on the top of the box. Let's see. Oh, oh, look at that. This is a mammillaria plumosa feather cactus with a sweet little bloom. That is so cute. It's not sharp. This is the way to do it. I like this. It's like, ta-da, every time a plant comes out of a box. Oh, ooh, ooh, look at the color on this one. This is an echinopsis marsenary. Monser, marsenary. Whoa, that is gorgeous. Oh my. Oh, this one's got spines to beat the band. I gotta be careful. Oh, the coloring on this one's really cool too. Astrophytum ornatum, star cactus. That is so pretty. Oh, cute, it's like a polka dot one. This is a fuzzy navel echinopsis. What a perfect name. Oh, oh my. That one's a chunk. This one's a parotia. Here we go. Just show the tag on that one. I don't even know how to describe the way this one looks. How would you describe that, Aaron? It's kind of like a donut. It's really hairy on top. It is really hairy. Is it sharp? No. I mean, if you hit it right, I bet you it would hurt. But it feels very soft. Oh, I love these. That blue coloring and they look so smooth. The gray ghost organ pipe. Stenocereus. I still have two boxes to open, you guys. Mountain Crest, you outdid yourselves big time. Oh my. Mammillaria sinilis. Yeah, that one doesn't feel good. They're like kind of bent on the ends. The spines are, ow, okay. It's kind of soft. Kind of not. Oh, the spines on this one are big. I'm not gonna touch those. There's some, I just can't help it. Like, I just gotta test it. Whoa. Stenocactus querianus, querianus. It's probably querianus. Querianus, don't cut that part out. Isn't that neat looking? It's so wavy. And the spines are so wicked. One left in this box. Can't see this one yet. Oh my. This cactus does not want to be touched. Nope, not even a little bit. This is a, this right here. Gymnocalycium spigazinii, spigazinii. Okay, I'm gonna clear this box off, get the other box. Move these aside. Get ready for the next one. Oh, this one's heavy. Okay, I think to speed this one up, I'm gonna unbox everything out onto the table and then we'll run through each one of them and we'll let you know what the names of them are. I love seeing all of this color. It's so much fun. So let's run through the names of these. And then I pulled this box out very last. Got the words weird and wonderful on it. So I thought we would unbox that one a little slower. But over here, what we've got is the Anacampsuro sunrise. Aloe, a lace aloe. This is a Haworthia. Cuperi, cuperal, cuperi. We've got a Hattiora, this is dancing bones, is what that one's called. We've got a Peperomia ferrarei. String of turtles. Thimble cactus. That one's got a little bloom on it. Pink jelly beans sedum. Ah, the color, so pretty. This is a Cotyledon, is that how you say that? Variegated, variegated bear's paw. I love how chubby these leaves are. This one's got neat color. This one's a concrete leaf, Titanopsis. You really see the detail on that one. Really interesting. We've got a baby toes, Fenastrea, Fenastrea, Fenastrea. There is a Kalanchoe, Militae, Aorastachys, which I think these are more hardy. This is a mini dunce cap. We've got a Haworthia, Denticolafera. This is a Senecio string of dolphins. We've got a Kalanchoe humilis. That one's got cool coloring. The variegation's so pretty. This is a Deuteroconia brevifolia. Pacifidum, little jewel. We've got a Senecio trailing jade weeping, weeping jade. Interesting. This is a Graptoveria, Fred Ives. Crassula platyphyla variegata. This one's cool. This is a Stapelia hirsuta. Senecio stapeliformis. Looks like a couple of, I don't know, almost like asparagus coming out of the ground, but a little thicker. Cotyledon chacoline. Right here is a Crassula taylor's parches. Peperomia dolabriformis. Move that out so you can see some detail there. It's got a really neat margin, like a darker green margin. Almost looks like where something was, there was a zipper or something. This is a Sedum furfuracium. Sedum orange delight. Lola echeverria. Love that one so much. This is a Burrito sedum. We've got a variegated watch chain. So this one, while a lot of them just have dark green, this one has some white in it. It's really interesting. This one is a Kalanchoe lavender scallops. And then back here, we've got a Ming thing, Sirius of a weirdo looking plant. That should be in that box. And then a Senecio spearhead. And Crassula campfire variegated. Okay, now let's get into this box. Weird and wonderful. So this must be like a set that you can buy all together. I'm guessing. That is a bunch of weird, weirdo looking ones. How interesting. Okay, so pull them out. We've got a split rock. Really pretty orange bloom. This one is the Living Stones lithops. Don't be gross, Aaron. I'm not being gross, I'm just saying, it's funny. Inner child coming out right now. Okay. This is a Famedium hybrid. This is a Haworthia MLA variegated major. This is a Gasteria little warty. The Titanopsis concrete leaf. So another one of these. We've got a Ficaria tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. This one is a Stomedium mustelium, mustelinum. And this one is a Haworthia. I should just hold tags up for all of these instead of struggling through trying to read them. That's a really fun mix. I'm gonna keep them all in this box because they're all nice and tidy in here. Last box. It looks like we've got a few different sets. Like this one says purple and black set of four. Purple and black set of four. So this one is Sempervivum hedgehog. Then we've got Echeveria mellico. This one is an Echeveria compressicalis. And Sempervivum brocade, brocade. This one's pink set of four. Ooh, oh my word. Look at that. That's my color palette right there. So we've got an Alpenglow grafted sedum. This is a sedum called, well, the pink jelly beans. Just a little less pink than the other one we just opened up. This is an Anacampsaros sunrise. And then a Pearl von Nurnberg Echeveria. This is creme de la creme set of four. Wonder what that means. Oh, cute. Variegated, variegated string of pearls, variegated crassula. So string of pearls here. That's a nice looking one. There's the crassula string of buttons, variegated. We've got the Aeonium suncup. And then this is a Portulacaria rainbow bush. This is MCG, Mountain Crest Gardens trifecta. Three plant classic beauties. Little succulent soil in there. And there's the crassula ivory towers. The Echeveria pearl non-Burnberg. Pearl von Nurnberg, my goodness. And string of pearls. Here is a Haworthia cooperi, variegated cooperi. Wow. These type of plants, they look watery to me. Like if you touched them, they would collapse into just like a puddle of mush. I don't know why, but they're so neat looking. Pacifidum pink moonstones. And a Pacifidum gonzo, gonzo. And then we've got three larger boxes in here. Susanne, isn't that interesting? I've never even seen that plant before. Cool. Another Astrophytum. This one is a, yeah. There you go. This is a Stansivaria called golden hennai. That almost has like an agave quality to it. Not a Stansivaria. I love that. And this is a Gasteria variegatum. Oh my goodness. Now what is this one? Is this another Euphorbia? Monstrose. What do you think of that one, Aaron? That's cool. Very cool. Look at this one. Under the sea looking plant. Crested eaves needle. What a weird looking plant. I know. That's really cool though. This is, the tag has fallen. An Astrophytum called bishop's cap. Such a good name for that one. Such a neat looking plant. An aloe. Spider aloe. With blooms already forming here. That's got a really pretty, I like the icy blue color. And we are on our last box. Can't even believe all of these plants. Oh. So it looks like a rickrack cactus or zigzag cactus. We did a video on these and I can't remember. There's like a couple different names that they're known by. But this is a really easy one to take care of. And they're actually a type that wants a little bit more water. And I can tell by the soil mix, it's different than the soil mix on all the other ones we've pulled out. It's got a lot more moisture in it. Fishbone cactus is another name. This is firecracker aloe. That's super pretty. Ooh, this is a cool one. A tarantula gasteria. And the very last one is a gorgeous Echeveria. Dusty rose. So nice. Okay, should I arrange them all on this table so we can see them all in one spot? Yeah. Oh my goodness. I think we've got, I just tried to count them. It's kind of hard when they're all put together like this. But I think we've got about 150 new plants sitting here. I think this is one of the biggest and probably the best succulent hauls we've ever done because of the vast array of variety and color that we have here. And I'm seeing plants that I've never even heard of before. You know, and it seems like there are a lot that you see often, I guess, like a lot of just common ones that you see. But there's just so many unique ones right here. It just makes me so very excited. Aaron and I were trying to decide which ones are our favorites in this load, and it's very hard to choose. Do you have like an absolute favorite out of this whole group? Like, what is your eye drawn to? Well, it's really drawn to that paddle plant. Yeah. What's that one called? A kalanchoe paddle plant. Paddle plant flapjack plant. It's drawn to some of the pink ones like this one. Yeah, the jelly bean. And that one. And a campsoros. You know what though? I really like this water ripple. I mean, from my angle anyway, I noticed the glow of that echeveria right there. But I love all the cacti. The cacti are so cool. And of course, like the variegated string of pearls, those are always really fun. And there's some really cool stems too. So we will probably have a video coming up here where I pot up some of these because I think we have an amazing collection just sitting right here. And I know, especially for the cacti, I don't tend to put those in mixed arrangements as much. You can, but you have to be more selective about how you water them. So I think I would like to just have an individually potted cactus collection. I think that would be really, really neat. And they are so low maintenance. That some of my longest lasting houseplants that I have, I've got two different cacti in our, well, one of them's in here and one of them's in the studio that I've had for most of Aaron and I's married life, which we've been married for 16 years. So they're probably like 13, 14, maybe 12 to 14 years old that I've had them. That's the longest running because houseplants for me have to be very easy to take care of. And succulents and cacti just happen to fit that category. And we have lots of light here, lots and lots of sunshine. So they typically do really well for us. I'm very excited about the hardy ones too. I think I would like to focus on maybe putting some of those somewhere in our landscape at some point too. Kind of creating an area that's got all of those, that really neat look to it. So anyway, again, we will put in the description of this video the link so that you guys can enter the giveaway. That's five $100 gift cards from Mountain Crest Gardens where you can order some of these things. I think that's just such a fun deal. So anyway, thank you Mountain Crest Gardens for sponsoring this video and sending out all of these gorgeous, gorgeous plants. We're gonna have so much fun with them. Thank you guys all for watching. We really appreciate it. Hope you're having a great day. And we will see you in the next video.