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Jen the Hippopottermiss
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Animal sculptor and SPD artist in France that likes nature, silly things, pretty colours, hippos, cats, and I have rather a lot of succulents.
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Graptoveria 'Lovely Rose' looking suitably lovely 🙂
October 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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My Frizzle Zizzle (Albuca spiralis) has woken up from its summer sleep, after putting it outside in the rain a couple of days ago. I removed its dead leaves and flower stalks.
September 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Aeonium 'Pink Witch' with a presumably reverted rosette on the same stalk. I rather like it like that but the reversion is going to be dominant. I’ll chop and prop it in the autumn.
#succulents #Aeonium, #PrettyInPink
#reversion #SucculentSunday #SundaySucculent
Two aeonium rosettes on the same stalk. One is pink, fading to cream in the centre, with a green mid-stripe on the leaves. The other is green with a pink mid-stripe on the older leaves or a cream stripe on the newer ones. The green one must be a reversion.
July 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#SixForSaturday (I can’t count), well six of them have names 😂 A few echeverias for you 😁
#Tolimanensis #LoveIsLight #Chihuahuaensis #CrispateBeauty #MexicanGiant #AgavoidesRomeo plus two with no ID.
A grid of photos of eight echeverias of different colours and shapes.
July 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The hot, sunny weather has been bringing out the colours. I think this is a very plump version of Graptoveria 'Debbi' but can’t be sure. I rescued it about 30 years ago from the abandoned greenhouse of my great aunt after she died.
A pot of multiple, candy pink, with a lilac tinge, rosettes with fat, roundish leaves that have a small point at the tip.
June 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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🌱 This little cobweb sempervivum is putting on a fireworks display 😁
#succulents #sempervivum #bloomscrolling #prettyinpink
June 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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It’s #Caturday Little Pomme, (oh those whiskers!) and big Blue, sunning themselves outside this week.
Pomme, the seal point cat, sunning herself on a plastic garden chair. She has magnificent white whiskers. A big, slightly striped, light greyish brown and white cat sunning himself on a plastic garden chair.
June 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Meet the new resident in my garden, a hippo and his bird buddy sculpture made by a scrap metal sculptor friend. 😁
#HippoSculpture #hippo #recycledmetal #sculpture #traditionalmedium #Art #caturday
The sculptor and I either side of the hippo sculpture. The sculpture seen head on, with its little bird chirping in the hippo’s ear. Close up of the small bird, which has a bigger steel ball for its body, a smaller one for its head, teaspoons for wings and a spoon handle for its tail. The sculpture side on. The body, which is made from the too ends of two liquid gas canisters has a panel of trianguler pieces of steel in the middle section, welded together but leaving spaces. Our seal point cat is curiously inspecting it.
June 7, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🌱 Sedum moranense is a carpet of little white stars at the moment 😁
#succulents #bloomscrolling #rockery
Lots of small, white, star shaped flowers with five petals, at the tips of a reddish, small leaved sedum plant. The unopened buds surrounding the flowers have a reddish tint.
May 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Some favourites from my echeveria hybrids sown a year ago. They’re 2 to 3 cm wide now. I hope they don’t change much in maturing. The bumblebees chose the hybrids. #succulents #EcheveriaHybrids #PlantMom #PlantSky
Small fat leaved rosette. The leaves are pale bluish green with pink to red pointed tips. Small rosette of upward curved succulent leaves that are green with a red tinge on the outside and have a red point. The leaves have short, pale bristles, more dense on the outside than on their inner face. Small rosette of up-curved, succulent leaves with very dark purple tips. The leaves are bluish green with a pinkish purple blush on the outside Small rosette of slightly pointed succulent leaves with very dark purple tips. The leaves are bluish with a dark pink edge and pink blush on the outside.
May 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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May 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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They appreciated last night’s rain. Grown from my own seeds. Echeveria and cotyledon hybrids selected by bumblebees 🙂
#🌱 #Succulents #SucculentSunday #echeveria #Cotyledon #PlantMom
Three small echeveria hybrids that have slightly pointed broad leaves with dark red edges and a purple grey tinge. Three small cotyledon hybrids. One has long, parallel edged leaves, one has fat round leaves, and one has thinner round leaves with a slightly wavy edge. Like a lot of cotyledons they all have a thin red edge round each apple green leaf.
May 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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🌱 My Sedum furfuraceum, also known as Bonsai Sedum, has opened one flower today. This is a very slow growing plant and grew itself into this shape with no training. Pot by me.
#Succulents #PlantSky #Sedum #bonsai
May 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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#SixForSaturday 🌱
Echeverias 'Romeo Rubin’, chihuahuensis, colorata 'Mexican Guant’, two without names, and one of my own agavoides hybrids (with no name).
#echeveria #succulents #plantsky
Six different coloured echeveria plants.
May 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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🌱 Waaaah! 😭 The culprit 🐌 Got a free flying leson across the small river that runs alongside my garden. Albuca humilis
#succulents #
A snail has eaten a large hole in the bulb of an Albuca humilis.
May 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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The delospermas in the rockery are starting to flower. 🌱
#succulents #delosperma #rockery #gardenfeed #bloomscrolling #flowers
May 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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My pink epiphyllum only has six flowers this year. It’s OK though because Euphorbia obesa is flowering to make up for it 😂
#bloomscrolling #succulents #epiphyllum #euphorbia
Large pink epiphyllum flowers that are darker on the outside petals compared to the pale pink inner ones. Tiny, strange looking flowers crown this round shaped Euphorbia obesa. The euphorbia is darker green and slightly ribbed with lighter green markings.
May 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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The sky has been milky with saharan sand dust brought by a southerly air flow. Seen mostly on cars or glass tables outdoors. There has been a light shower in the night that moved it around, and the second photo is when a couple of snails or slugs passed in the night.
#saharandust #snailtrail
A mottled pattern of saharan dust on a glass tabletop in the garden. A light coating of saharan dust on a glass tabletop, with two wiggly trails of slugs or snails crossing each other and concentrating the dust. This is probably due to the sticky mucus they leave behind.
May 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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A lewisia in a hole in my rockery wall. The snails ate the rest of the flowerbuds.
#lewisia #flowers #gardenfeed #prettyinpink #rockery
May 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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🌱 The echeveria flowers are delicate, especially the agavoides. Then there’s this cotyledon that’s somewhat bolder 😂
#FlowerFriday #succulents #echeveria #Cotyledon #flowers #garden
April 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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One of my epiphyllums has opened its first three flowers today.
#succulents #FlowerFriday #epiphyllum
An epiphyllum plant with three big, red flowers that have white tipped stamens, and several unopened buds next to them. A large, red, epiphyllum flower with many white tipped red stamens coming from a green centre. The inner petals form a cup shape around the stamens, while the outer petals are more pointed and open.
April 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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🌱 Graptosedum amicie, which didn’t suffer at all in my greenhouse when it went down to -6°C a couple of nights. I’ve just put it outside because it’s grey and rain is forecast. It might go frosty again soon though. It’s in-out-in-out season here in Brittany.
#succulents #graptosedum #plantsky #BZH
A round, blue decorated, pot with a succulent growing in it. Graptosedum amicie has plump, rounded, pale green leaves that are slightly pink tinged, arranged in a rosette. One of the several stems is just starting to hang over the edge of the pot. It is also sending out a long flower stem.
April 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The drizzle was picking out the fine layer of spiders web in the grass 🌱
#SpiderWeb #spider #grass #droplets
Droplets of water clinging to the random threads of spider web suspended between the blades of grass in the garden.
March 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🌱 My Star Magnolia is starting to look lovely 😁 There are plenty of buds to come too
#magnolia #gardening #flowers #PlantSky
March 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Acrobatic frog sculpture. I like giving clay, which is by nature heavy and inert, lightness and life. Modelled in stoneware clay.
#AnimalSculpture #pottersofbluesky #ceramics #traditionalmedium #frog #acrobat #ceramicsculpture
Sculpture of a green, spotty, acrobatic frog standing on one hand on a small yellow ball that is decorated with red stars.
March 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM