My Succulent Garden In This Very Wet and Cold Winter 🥶

Oh my god, that's look same smell like immortal Hi guys, how are you all doing? So today is weekend again, but we're not going to do any DIY This weekend video guys because it's been raining a lot the rain is off and on and we can't really do a DIY project so the thing that we're going to do this time guys is just to do some cleaning up Because the garden is a mess and there's a lot of leaves falling off the trees and the ground is very very wet So guys this is what it looks like in my garden at the moment it's really really wet here there are lots of these leaves from this Iyaka, that's the Iyaka tree that's falling off everywhere and These fern also dropping off a lot of leaves and you can see the ground It's very wet. Some of my plant guys are already have a leaf rot So that's all what we can do today guys. We just have a little bit of clean up and then I'll Show you around what's happening in my plants in this very very wet weather So we have lots of puddles happening, so look at this My pot here is collecting water a lot of water some of the plant here Look the leaf are rotting the stem is alright, but the leaf I start rotting just like this What do you call this? I think this is Aetna Echeveria Aetna and look at the leaf guys, so I will I think I'm going to Remove this one because we still have two months of winter and The rain is not stopping soon. So we will have a lot of rain happening and we have a report that this month of winter This one of winter here in mouth game year. We only have five days of no rain and the rest are all raining and It has five to ten mils of rain So I'm going to show you that report but over here in this area here where the shade plant The succulent here are doing well so no sign of leaf rotting and Yeah, so we're going to Remove all these puddles that we collected Then over here also now it start raining again guys More water That we need to empty The apricot tree all the leaf already drop off. So we will start cleaning the ground if the rain will not going to Drop again, but it start Showering now now with my plant like this cactus This cactus don't like too much rain So what I did to protect this is I have this bamboo stick and then I put some Just a plastic guys to just cover that So that it will not get a lot of rain. It's like that and then if it's not really raining a lot, then I will just going to leave this one and Leave it open So they can just have an air circulation the way we have to remove some of these weeds in here That is growing in between of this cactus, but we cannot touch it guys because the cactus is very prickly So I need to use this tweezer this one here but this Weed is really Plant itself here. Well, so I'm not sure if I can take it off Here so maybe we'll move this Okay, we're getting there guys We're winning. Not really. I got some of the roots now. We will put this thing back Now I love this cactus arrangement have you guys really beautiful look at that so I need to protect them from too much rain because they don't like the too much water So we're just removing all the weeds and you can see here guys. There's some moss Growing in this arrangement and it kind of look nice absolutely It's making this arrangement. So looking natural, isn't it? Look at that Pretty beautiful. I have put a Sempervibum here Sempervibum looking good as well There you go, so this is one of my arrangement guys that is very What you call this very less maintenance, I don't have much problem with this And I love this. I also have this Plant here. It's also covered. So that's how I protect my plant during winter my favorite one the favorite one but even though The leaf is still affected by the too much coldness There you go. So it start affecting with the freezing Condition at night But it's alright this happen every winter, but they will recover when springtime comes But most but some of them here are doing fine the lipstick The ebony and the Amistro are doing good as well as the Benimusume Benimusume is doing fine and that helps all right, so Join me guys. We will just going to do some a little bit of clean up Everything is a mess So I'm sorry, we don't have a DIY project, but Matthew and I already started some DIY Ideas, but we can't finish it because of this wet condition see That's bad, so All right, so we will do some cleanup remove all those Leaf dropping off and empty all those Containers that collected a lot of rain So some of the plant over here Even we have a lot of rain. Some of them are doing fine this Agavoids Blood Maria Is doing good Even the lipstick I can see a leaf right here But not a lot But the frilly doesn't really love the cold weather in winter so you can see they are really affected by the freezing condition this winter and some of the Plants are getting some leaf rot not root rot, but leaf rot So I'm happy with the leaf rot, but if we getting a root rot, then that's a big problem We will lose the plant And they're not also getting a lot of nice color guys because the Sun is not coming out at all So I'll better help Matthew And he start Yeah, look at this one This one already rotted getting a lot of rain water from the rain Okay But overall over here The Ionium loving the rain guys See how big the Ionium they are loving the rain and even my Sedum Viridis Loving the rain But Some don't like the rain So you can see Some leaf rot there. Even this bent body starting to have a leaf rot This is my Chihuahua Yancis also starting to have this leaf damage Okay So let's start cleaning guys and make this garden a little bit decent at the moment, I don't like what it looks like because of the Wet condition lots of leaf are dropping off from the trees So we will just remove some water to put some water from the pot that I have there Do you think we need to just drill a hole underneath? Because this is my potting mix and see there's still soil in there But the moment can use that one Now it's flooding here Okay So Matthew is just drilling a hole on that pot that's only a styrofoam pot There you go. So that's easy fix Now this one guys is Imbricara. I already removed some leaf here that already rotten There's a lot of leaf rot in this but I removed it yesterday and you can see some of you are mushy Like that start to be mushy Over here in the middle middle of the Plant there's just like mushy one Like that. I know it's really wet and like over here in the middle So I'm going to take them off guys because if we don't Then it will going to get worse and there's no air circulation Going to happen and it will going to rot my Imbricara more so We will do that this weekend So I'm going to get some bucket to put all of these rotten leaf So I almost got all those rotten leaf guys, but not all But not bad now, I think this one will going to have a good air circulation now and Then of course, we still have more rain coming On our way. So we're not out of the woods yet. We still have two months of Winter here in Mount Gambier, Australia So lots and lots of rain still coming so This one will just going to take it off so that it will going to give some air circulation Okay so we can Go to our next job So this is what's happening in my succulent guys during winter time It's just like this but It's saying in our community limestone report That this year this winter the wettest June on record rainfall Rainfall and records fall across the region and weather sites at Mount Gambier the highest June Rainfall since records commenced 82 years ago and Mount Gambier recorded a total of 165.2 mm and Experienced only nine days of more than 10 miles of rain and just five days with no rain at all So this month we only have five days of no rain So, how crazy is that guys that's why I'm wondering why I do have a lot of plants that are You know, the leaves are rotting Well that answers my question because we only have five days. No rain this month this month of June How crazy is that guys and we also Getting like five to ten mils of rain so that is why My succulents starting to have a leaf rot But my new guys, it's only leaf rot. I'm still happy with that because I'm not getting a root rot yet Fingers crossed. I hope I will not get a Root rot because if we do get root rot then goodbye. Goodbye to our plants Now this serum here This one here the green jelly bean or red jelly bean, this is blue jelly bean They're very tough. Even the pink jelly bean I have there. Although it's not coloring up guys because The Sun is hiding The Sun is not coming out at all So, I hope the Sun will come out soon Okay So I'm going to go there to guys and remove some leaves that are dropping on top of the succulent blood so we're just going to rake all the Leaf that is also start to decay or rot And removing all those water That the pots collected because that will be a breathing ground or Yeah, is it breathing ground of mosquito Yeah Now here's my onion corner guys. If you have seen this video a while ago, this looks so pretty But look at it now all this Onion is growing so big but some of them are struggling because just like this one It's not getting a lot of sunlight So look at it too much rain it start the leaf start rotting that's dropping off No, no, look at that But the ionium sunbursts are doing well, so this one will stay here the Mardi Gras here is Not coloring up as well, but still beautiful in there, especially the sunbursts They're beautiful, but this one also start to have this leaf dropping in the middle like that so Even this Arborium, this is very tough plant. But this year it's also struggling guys. I mean, I think they are Struggle in getting all of this too much rain and they're really very cold freezing morning and night So because this area here of my garden, there's no protection Yeah, so they are really hammered by the weather But they always recover so and this one is really beautiful when There is a sun or when it gets enough sunlight, but at the moment we are really We are really we really need some sunlight, but we're not getting that so over here there are some of the Leaf on top of the plant that I need to remove now this freely here guys. Look at this. It's really beautiful. I mean like It's not too bad I Think the The rain doesn't really affect this much this become acclimated But if this one is not acclimated guys, then it will be It will get some leaf damage now this one here This is what you call this. I forgot. What are you? anyway Yeah So some of the imbricata is not doing well and my blue metal also Didn't like the too much rain That we have this winter So lots of leaf on top of this Arrangement I have here in the ground. So by removing this leaf guys We can help our Succulent to get some good air circulation And of course when this leaf we're going to wrap Then it will can it can cause Leaf wrap our leaf rotting in our succulent as well But this echeveria elegans is very very hardy plant or hardy succulent They don't mind the Frost here in where I am. They don't mind the too much rain They are very very tough plant Here, this is also imbricata guys. You see imbricata really don't like the Cold weather unless they are acclimated they become tough and then I have the Baron bold here. It's start to have a bumps My lipstick here in the corner Is not coloring up So this is another frilly that I have here guys. This one here is Just the same plant That I have there so that one is been in that It's been in that position for at least I think last year last autumn and this one I just Planted this one few months ago. So the color is that and I guess in this position It doesn't get a lot of sunlight and you can see there is a bad leaf damage So I will just have to remove that nail Just to give them some more room to Room for air circulation So this one over here not too bad So I don't see a lot of leaf rotting yet I'm happy with this area here. Just a little leaf rot Not a lot But this one this one is another Imbricata but my Ruby necklace underneath is start rotting see It needs some thinning out or air circulation. So I have to cut this one a bit And let's get this one Lots of work needs to be done guys. That's why we cannot do any DIY Project this weekend. Oh, no, this one is a powder puff so powder puff don't like the freezing condition as well unless they are Acclimated so this one is not acclimated yet Now this area here in my garden guys There's a shade cloth Which is 30% coverage mainly the purpose of this the reason I install this is for the frost and hail, but this time of the month Winter we don't have frost yet because we have so much rain So this aeonium corner guys is really doing well Although they are not coloring up yet But they are growing nicely. I haven't propagated it yet so I'm going to make a video of how I'm going to Propagate them. So I'll have to do that before the winter ends and I have lots of babies in here underneath more babies so I'm going to cut the top head or pinch top so that the baby will end up like this cluster and then our Over here The rain gutters some of them on the top are start rotting getting our leaf rot So we were going to clean that one as well. So I have few here so you can see They are getting some leaf damage So I'll have to take them off To improve more air circulation But aside from that some of them doing well so you can see this one guys This one also getting some Leaf rot There you go. So I have to see Shine look at that. Oh my goodness. That's what happened when we get too much rain They start rotting Now this one is beautiful. They are really growing clump, but then the rain just stop it should So we'll have to clean that and then this one as well this serum here Start to have a gap in between because that one getting some mildew This one here to look Okay, so we will check that. I'm just going to get some chairs so I can reach it Okay from here Not too bad Because this one at least this underneath here is being protected by this rain gutter from the top So it doesn't really harm it too much with rainwater As well as the bottom here So some plants are a bit sensitive to rain they don't like too much rain, but some are hardy Look at these guys beautiful but no color Because we don't have sunlight now the Sun is out, but it will not going to last Okay, so I'm just going to clean here remove all this leaf that been blown by the wind By the way guys look at this one here, this is a prolific a hybrid Look at how beautiful it is look at the color So I think the reason why the color is like this because this plant is really stressed and this been in this pot for a long time for a while since I bought it from the Greenland garden, but the one I took it out from here cut it off and planted in here Over here here this one here in the gutter. They're very green Now over here guys I have this arrangement for quite some time now, but I just need to remove all this leaf that's been falling on top of the plant Now most of the plant in here are very hardy so ever since I Don't have a problem On this one here all that all the problem. I have are these weeds The weeds are just growing Yeah, so But aside from that The plants that I planted in this ground here are all surviving. So as you see guys Elegance really very tough plant. So if you want to put some arrangement in the ground Plant some elegance So, yeah, I think not too bad in here here they are even my Cactus or barrel cactus is doing well. I Have a brain cactus here Doesn't see the sunlight. That's why it's like that and also I have the Donkey's tail or monkey's tail. Sorry monkey's tail. That one is really surviving well here, but under that shade cloth My oh my goodness my etna I think this is it should be an etna. I have to take it off because on the other side is also the leaf are also Rotting so I will pull that one out sooner or maybe I'll pull it now Hang on a minute. I'll just have to take this one off Now this is imbricata Surprisingly, it's not rotting yet Because it doesn't get enough sunlight in this area Okay So that's so far. That's good So I'm just going to pull out my etna guys because it has lots of leaf rot already So this arrangement here is not Doing well I don't want them to Rot completely I still have two Two months of winter. So I'm going to change that one with a new one All right, let's come off So here's the Leaf rot So we'll take it out now before it completely This arrangement will be ruined The stem is good Yes, it is echeveria etna So guys the stem is good. There's no rot only the leaf. So I'm happy with that So here it is now You can see at the bottom. The stem is all rot Just the leaf is start rotting so there's another one coming and this one another one rotting so I'll take it out and put it in a undercover So here we go guys the rain is coming there's the cloud it's very dark Yes, the rain is coming now, so That's it for us So that's it for now for us guys, I don't think we can continue our Cleaning so we haven't really done as much and here's the rain Okay, let's go inside Here's the rain. Oh my goodness There you go Okay, hang on The rain starts now guys, so I think that's it for us now Sorry, we don't really have much to show you in this video So that's it for now guys, please. Don't forget to subscribe and hit that Notification bell and also don't forget to leave me a comment in my comment section and I'll get back to you as soon as I can So guys, I will see you next time. Bye