In a bid to beautify the corridor outside our new place, I invested in a hanging garden of great alien-like succulents. Succulents are all the rage now in San Francisco; take a walk around our neighborhood and you will see hundreds of different species of succulents sprouting all over the place. Very, very hip garden feature.
And thankfully, very idiot-proof (or so we hope)! Water only when the soil dries out i.e. once a week or every two weeks-ish. And if they so happen to catch a glimpse of the sun, they flower! Delightful.
This is a glamour shot of the succulents--they are more sparse than that and we are patiently waiting for them to grow and fill out and become gloriously lush.
First time actual gardening experience (I'm not counting tending to Mum's ferns or growing tau-gey as a child)!