Showcasing The Unsung Beauties In The Garden.

I'm just going to be admiring some of the plants that actually don't get any footage I should say or don't get noticed so I'm showcasing all the unsung heroes who just you know grow quietly and make the garden look so pretty so I'm gonna show you all the ones that I don't mention but they are so lovely and just add to the garden. First on my list to be showcased is this Crassula. It's a Crassula platyphylla and this is a burgundy version so the leaves get really burgundy or a deep red over the summer months. Once it gets a lot of light it gets really dark so you can see the tips here are red but why I want to talk about this is because well we're just the first week of summer now but look it's getting these flower spikes and you know you might not think they're not as stunning or whatever but they are so pretty because it gives so much of height and you know just a bit of variation in the succulents and because the stems are so straight it's so lovely it's not like the other flowers that just you know fall down like this. This one stays upright and these flowers are so tiny but they're so pretty once they open so they're still closed now they're not open so once they open they look so cute and I've got them quite a few places so I've got that one there and I've got another one here on the end you can see the spikes there as well so I try to put it everywhere just so it you know it has some kind of uniformity and the other one I want to mention is this. The other one I want to mention is this other Tressula. This one is Tressula rogersii, it's called a broad bean or something as well. This one also has these spike tall spikes with flowers and you know the insects like them so I will keep this and plus the other benefit, excuse all these cars, the other other benefit of this is that the ants don't attack it or they don't bring efforts to it as much as the other flowers so that's why I like that. I've got it quite a few places and it grows so quickly. I've got some there and I've got some here, there's a few here and I've got it in the vertical planter as well so they're here and the other very important one that I want to mention is this is actually like the it's called a cotyledon pendants and I've seen it it's like a hanging plant that you know is usually grown in hanging baskets but this one is growing upright here you can see it's like an upright plant and it's so good because it's flowered all through winter and it's still going you can see it's about to open as long as I keep picking off the buds or the dried blooms it keeps flowering and the best thing about it is the birds love it there's a there's a little honey eater that it's a yellow and black bird that comes to take the nectar from these flowers and it's so cute I mean so unassuming and it keeps flowering and the birds enjoying it and that's why I've propagated it a few places so I've cut it and I've put a piece here and I've got I've got it in a few places but it's not as big as this one and so I'm going to propagate it more this season and plant it everywhere else and while I'm still here at the back corner I want to showcase this chrysalis here it's it's like a perforator but I think this one is a baby necklace you can see it's got a smaller square the leaves are smaller than the other perforator and look how cute it looks with this edges the red edges and look it's just doing its own thing and it's just a bit of variation in the succulents and I wasn't noticing it much and then I thought oh look how cute it just over above the sedum so I need to propagate this as well and of course I have to mention my jelly beans this sedum is such a hard worker I don't like the flowers but all these little hoverflies are enjoying them so I just have to leave them but I want to mention this because look how fat and plump these leaves are they are so cute and especially if they're planted or mass planted they look so adorable and so lush and green here and in autumn they get this lovely red see it's a full mass of red now it's looking green in the in this early summer and spring oh I've got more there you can see them down here look at my baby side how is that oh look how lovely they're looking so lovely and you know things that don't get mentioned but they still doing their job and looking so pretty there's more here as well you can see how red it is and they're so round they do look like jelly beans that's why they're called and the other chrysalis I want to mention is this chrysalis red edge it doesn't look too red now the tips but they do get a nice red edge so but what I like best about this is in autumn it gets these huge tall spikes of white flowers and they look so good and the bees also love them but it gives so much of height to this space so I've propagated it in quite a few places so you can see I've got them here oh here you can see the red edge properly I mean it's such a nice massive mass of this little red tips and it looks so cute because you can see those lines and then from far it looks like its own pattern so I tried to plant them there I've got another patch here there's a small patch on this end as well and then I did plant more at the bottom there's a small lot here but I planted more at the bottom so I'm waiting for them to bloom in autumn and it will be so cute this one's not getting as much light now I think because of this peach tree that's here and but once we get into fall into summer it will start getting the red edge but more distinct and you know my peach tree I cut out quite a bit of the peaches and you know hopefully now they get sweeter because too much of fruit can't ripen properly and it doesn't stay sweet or it doesn't get sweet oh look at this here I can see better from here now while I'm standing it's really cute and I just noticed that there's another patch of it by the post box and that is quite dark so you can see the burgundy shade or how red it can get when it's hot or it's getting a lot of sun so there's it here look the same thing look how red these leaves are they're so sun-stressed yeah they're so pretty I mean things that you don't notice and I don't mention so it's not always about all the fancy succulents these simple common succulents you know work so hard as well and look so good and that's my jellybean river that I just showed you I'm going to trim that or remove that and another one that goes well I only have a small one of this so that's why I don't mention it as much but it is deserving of some attention and that's this Andromachis androstata it's got these markings on them like and look at them they're called Indian clubs club someone because they look like little clubs but it's doing so well here I just put it outside and it has and it's done so well look how cute it is those chubby leaves you did get a flower but I can't remember what the flower looks like probably nothing too dramatic but it's just another bit of variation in texture and looks so adorable and then I want to mention my silver spoon let me show you one that's on the other side that silver spoon is so lovely and I need to propagate more of it there's it here so this it's a kalanchoe silver spoon and it's this white leaf is so pretty it's so easy to grow even if if one leaf falls down it just grows but it just takes a while to grow now I've got it here and there's another one growing amongst that ice plant which I need to take out and plant elsewhere but this is so lovely if you want that white shade and you mix it next to some dark green it looks stunning so I want to show you let me show you what it looks like planted amongst or behind something green you can really notice it and it's a good variation because this is always a succulent um the leaves are so flashy it looks like a normal plant so that's you know you can plant it anywhere and it's so hard you're not going to need water but it's going to give you that um that silver gray foliage so let me show you the one in the alfresco which I planted that looks so stunning I think the silver spoon that I and look how cute it is here this is just about size stress but look that combination which I wanted a bit dark green or bright green look at this white and then that's a different shade of green just looks so cute and you'll never say it's a succulent but look how stunning it looks with a different texture as it were the backdrop of a different texture that finally has this big and this tiny leaf all succulents I don't need to water them all the time and pamper them and look such a stunning pot display so I've got two of them here and if you look back at my veggies you'll remember when I planted them and now they've caught on nicely and taking off and look so stunning I am just loving it I can see them every day here through this veranda space and I just enjoy looking at how bright green that Senecia is and then that silver spoon is so stunning