Australian Succulents
Attila Kapitany
Galleries introduction
Welcome to our video and picture galleries.
There are two main sections here. The first shows our varied display gardens (which have native succulents integrated amongst other Australian native plants and also many exotic plants). The second section below covers native succulents in habitat and close up. There are also further videos and pictures throughout this website e.g. in our Cultivation and Trials section, left menu.
Scroll down for each of these two main sections.
We hope you enjoy our pictures, but please remember that all images are Copyright (c) Australian Succulents, and any unauthorised use, copying, distribution, storage or sharing, by any means, physical or electronic, is strictly prohibited. If you would like to purchase high-resolution images, please contact us here. We have many thousands of images, apart from those on the website.
SECTION ONE IN THE PICTURE GALLERIES HAS OUR DISPLAY GARDENS FEATURED THROUGHOUT THE SEASONS
Here are links to some of the best seasonal highlights IN OUR GARDEN that features native plants and succulents throughout the year. The first two are 2021 very short photo videos of current highlights. Both videos are very different! The rest of the videos and content below are older images through the years but some dramatic differences to what is on show now. you may be surprised as to what has changed.
2019 A different perspective of the garden
Due to Government Covid-19 restrictions our garden was closed for most of 2020 & 2021. Our garden was booked for a big public opening in August 2020. This was cancelled but we have an ABC TV Gardening Australia segment showing how it looks in August!
Here is the link: Television segment featuring us in our garden
Even more short VIDEOS, some taken by other professionals, and it can be interesting to see the different perspectives and different plants highlighted in each video found here
Native Succulents in our Garden
Quite a few prominent people have visited our garden- just to see our native succulents at their best - Australian Institute of Horticulture, Melbourne University, senior management of Melbourne Botanic Gardens, and various botanists, to name a few. They choose a calendar date of convenience and book a visit; however this always means they get a snap shot of a single day in the calendar year. This then can offer a disappointing low number of native plants at their best. We have one or two to several species looking good at any one time. But never all at once!
While we enjoy having something in flower or fruit throughout the whole of the year, this can never present as a single momentous display. So I decided to compile a sampling of some of the best images in a short 3 minute slideshow. There are hundreds of different native succulents we have now trialled successfully, and so it is also hard for us to choose what to show here and what to leave out.
I’ve also tried to avoid too much technical botanical data in such a short video. Most of these Australian succulent plants in the video are small to modest in size, shape and impact compared to exotic succulents (that routinely get all attention and accolades). However this slideshow hopefully will show that they can still be attractive and worthwhile!
Our garden with Australian native succulents featured like this is a first of its kind and plays a small but important part in promoting Australian content in Australian gardens.
Here it is! A focus on Native Succulents only
SECTION TWO IN THE PICTURE GALLERIES BELOW HAS SOME FANTASTIC PICTURES OF AUSTRALIAN NATIVE SUCCULENTS CLOSE UP (INCLUDING SHRUBS AND TREES.)
For example we have over 30 different species of Calandrinias and have only some of them represented here. So don't hesitate to ask us about images of other plants not listed. All of these images on the website are also but a sample, mostly from our book called 'Australian Succulent Plants'. Full descriptions and other detailed information about their habitat and/or cultivation are covered in the book.
Gallery One: Adansonia gregorii -> Calandrinia balonensisGallery Two: Calandrinia creethae -> Calostemma purpureumGallery Three: Carpobrotus -> Doryanthes excelsaGallery Four: Doryanthes palmeri -> Hoya macgillivrayiGallery Five: Hoya pottsii -> Myrmecodia beccariiGallery Six: Myrmecodia tuberosa -> Portulaca australisGallery Seven: Portulaca bicolor -> SclerolaenaGallery Eight: Sesuvium portulacastrum -> Zygophyllum glaucum
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