Ceropedgia Dochotoma
Dry Climate Lover
pictured: Ceropedgia Dochotoma potted in Adam Robinson Design & Zakkia’s EMBERS Bowl Planter, available from zakkia.com.au and featured in Adam’s ‘Secret Garden’ installation at the Saint Cloche gallery in Paddington.
Ceropedgia Dochotoma is endemic to the Canary Islands archipelago and it forms large upright open shrubs. It starts as a single, firm upright stick that in time spreads, making a whole colony of branching succulent stems that ascend from the base. Olive green in colour, however in very hot, sunny conditions they are covered in a ghostly white wax.
This succulent is smooth with some constrictions at intervals which make them look like a row of upstanding long sausages – some prostrate, but mostly erect. It produces yellow lantern-like flowers and prefers grainy soils, rockeries and rocky crevices with good drainage and sun-exposed positions – they prefer a dry climate.
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Madagascar Palm
This is a sun-loving plant that puts out all their new growth in the summer months.