Most of the succulent plants I've accumulated are more colorful over winter, if they're getting enough sun. Blue-ish, gray, purple, red, orange, yellow, regular green, olive green - it's fantastic! It makes a mini garden look stuck in fall colors mode, like tiny deciduous trees, if you can indulge a little imagination.



And I think at least 80% bloom over the short-day part of the year, between the equinoxes, away from the heat of summer. I get a lot of wild, stretched blooms on inside plants, but they are blooms & they provide plant-citement during the inside season. There's something so fun about tiny plants making tiny flowers, especially in the captivity of some kind of container!

Lithops, Ledebouria, Ludisia, so many Kalanchoes, Senecios/Curios/Kleinias, Schlumbergera, Grapto's & the Sedum hybrids Graptosedum Sedeveria, Callisias, Gasterias, Aloes, wax Begonias keep going, others that don't come to mind @ the moment.

I did not notice this Aloe inflorescence forming when I was watering this yesterday. It's at least ½" taller @ noon when I took the pic than it was @ 7 AM when I first noticed it.



Kalanchoe buds forming, wax Begonia going crazy, love that bluish-gray color on Graptosedum.

purpleinopp said:I did not notice this Aloe inflorescence forming when I was watering this yesterday. It's at least ½" taller @ noon when I took the pic than it was @ 7 AM when I first noticed it.

Yeah, when the aloes send up a stalk, they don't mess around! And the bigger the aloe, the faster they seem to grow.

My mini Stapelia has a few buds in progress, and my Thanksgiving cactus (a collection of cuttings at the moment because my big one gave up on life) has buds too. Nothing else at the moment, but I usually get a stalk or two from my big Mosaic aloe over the winter. We'll see if my Firecracker aloe follows suit with the year-round blooming. It's always fun to see the pots lined up on the windowsill, whatever they do.

Sounds colorful & fun. : ) I look forward to seeing some pics if you feel like it at some point.

I don't have any experience in growing plants/flowers in 4 seasons country. I always think flowers will bloom in Spring and loose all their leaves in autumn

People usually think of annuals as plants that sprout in the spring and go to seed in the fall ... pretty standard for crop plants. Well anyway we have a winter annual here that does the opposite. This non-native (invasive) succulent sprouts in the fall or winter and goes to seed in the spring. A therophyte, if you like fancy botanical words, for places with winter rainfall (=summer drought) climates, of which there are about 5 around the planet. This annual succulent (actually there are 2 close cousins, pictured below) is a weed in this type of climate but no others, as far as I know.

The aforementioned winter annuals:



The first plant is invasive from coastal BC north to the Bay Area in California (all mild winter rainfall zone) but not north of there, due to its weak cold tolerance.

https://www.calflora.org/app/t...

I used to grow a few gesneriads, mainly african violets and primulina
African violets bloom pretty nicely over the winter, primulina are slightly different. My primulina, for some reason, do not seem to care about what time of the year it is.... they just bud and then sit there and then one day they pop open and bloom.