Five of these six succulents have weirdly silly common names. I did not notice until after I got all of their pictures.
1. Carpobrotus edulis or Carpobrotus chilensis, pigface is a new acquisition that should help stabilize a sandy bank in one of our landscapes. It came from a beach in Santa Cruz.
2. Aeonium arboreum, common houseleek not only has a silly name, but also has a silly form, with wide foliar rosettes suspended by lanky and otherwise awkwardly bare stems.
3. Graptopetalum pentandrum, bluebean is not actually within any of the landscapes. It is a diminutive specimen that remains potted in the nursery. I am unsure of its identity.
4. Echeveria elegans, Mexican snowball contrasts splendidly with the limey green of the common houseleek, which it grows at the base of. I would not mind more of these about.
5. Crassula ovata ‘Hobbit’, Hobbit’s pipe, like common houseleek, is silly both in name, and in form, with these oddly tubular leaves. It is a lighter green than typical jade plant.
6. Crassula ovata, jade plant is the only one of these Six that lacks silliness. Its bloom is too cute in closeup view to omit, though. Besides, Six on Saturday is better with flowers.
This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/
Tony Tomeo 
I really enjoyed your silly succulents. Such interesting plants!
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And they are silly too!
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I really like the bluebean, it is so pretty in shape and colour and then, ‘Hobbit’ is so unusual with it’s little pipe leaves…..thank you so much for sharing your succulents.
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Bluebean may never move out into the real landscapes. It is too diminutive. It is a nice potted plant though, so may grow at the base of a larger potted plant, like an angel’s trumpet. Although diminutive, it is too interesting to not add to the landscape somewhere.
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Thats a good collection of succulents , Mexican snowball is my favourite silliness
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Mexican snowball is rad. It retains that light bluish green color throughout the year, and fills in nicely around the bases of large potted plants, such as banana trees.
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Love all of these! Of course I have most of them as “house plants,” including 3 hobbit jades, which I somehow managed to acquire. They make great plants for lecture demos.
I just loved seeing your common jade flowering. Despite my best efforts, I haven’t been able to get mine to do that here in the Frozen North.
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Because jade plant is a foliar plant, its bloom is not a priority. In fact, the bloom sort of detracts from the shiny jade like foliage. It is prettier in close up.
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Is the first picture also called “iceplant”? it looks a lot like what was planted in theory to act as a buffer in case of fire on the canyon slope behind our house. We called it “ice plant”, but never knew the scientific name. It had deep purple flowers – loved to see it on the hillsides, though my current native plant fixation would rather see sagebrush and manzanita in the canyons where I used to play.
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Yes, it is more commonly known as iceplant here, although it is not a real iceplant. Those with the purplish pink or pinkish purple flowers are Carpobrotus chilensis. Those with yellow flowers are Carpobrotus edulis. I do not know what those in the picture are. I sort of prefer the Carpobrotus chilensis. I think it looks neater.
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That is the first time I’ve seen the flowers of the Crassula, though I tried to grow that one years ago it never bloomed. I enjoy the succulents just for their leaves, and so do the deer when they get a chance to get close to them. Lovely photos this week and with plants growing in rosettes with such attractive leaves, who needs flowers anyway? So many common succulents look like sturdier, longer lasting flowers without stamens.
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Actually, the bloom of the jade plant sort of detracts from its shiny jade like foliage. I just posted the picture because I thought the flowers were nice in close up view. None of these succulents needs bloom. The pigface, which is more commonly known as iceplant (although not really an iceplant), is nice, either yellow (edulis) or purplish pink (chilensis).
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I’ve been familiar with the jade plant for years, but never have seen one in bloom. The flowers are so pretty. The Hobbit’s pipe looks remarkably like a succulent (Sesuvium portulacastrum) that thrives in saline environments here.
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Although pretty close up, the bloom of the jade plant is not much to brag about, and sort of detracts from the shiny jade like foliage. Jade plant is actually prettier without it.
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Beautiful succulents! My favourite is Hobbit due to the funny shape, but the jade is also very beautiful with its flowers.
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Hobbit’s pips is a cultivar of jade plant, so they both bloom the same. Realistically though, they are prettier without their bloom.
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They are beautiful! I really like that first Pigface succulent–the name, the colors, and the form are all unque and fun.
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Pigface, which is more commonly known as iceplant, is the most useful within our landscapes. We have a sandy bank that is constantly eroding. We hope that the pigface helps with that, like it does on beach properties.
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I have not seen hobbit, but I like it. Sedums are referred to as House Leeks in the South. What is a House Leek anyway? None of these are oniony?
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I have no idea. I only know that it is a silly name. Do you suppose that it is because it is edible?
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