Echeveria Blue bird
🌿 Plant Name
Echeveria Blue bird
(Sometimes sold as Blue Rose Echeveria)
🌍 Origin
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Hybrid cultivar
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Created by Dick Wright (USA)
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Parentage: Echeveria derosa × Echeveria lilacina
🪴 Description
Echeveria ‘Lola’ is a perfectly symmetrical rosette-forming succulent admired for its soft pastel blue-grey leaves with a powdery coating (farina).
The leaves are spoon-shaped, slightly pointed, and often show a pink blush on the tips and margins, especially in cool weather or strong light.
Rosettes remain compact and elegant, making it one of the most popular ornamental Echeverias.
🌞 Care Guide
☀️ Light
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Bright indirect light to gentle morning sun
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4–6 hours ideal
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Too little light → stretching
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Harsh afternoon sun → leaf burn
💧 Watering
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Soak & dry method
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Water only when soil is completely dry
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Summer: every 7–10 days
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Winter: every 2–3 weeks
⚠️ Avoid water on leaves to protect farina
🌱 Soil
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Fast-draining succulent mix
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Best: cactus soil + perlite / pumice / coarse sand
🪴 Pot
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Pot with drainage holes
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Terracotta preferred for airflow
🌼 Fertilizer
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Optional
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Light feeding once a month in spring & summer
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Diluted cactus fertilizer
🌸 Flowering
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Blooms in spring
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Produces pink to coral bell-shaped flowers on tall stalks
🌿 Propagation
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Leaf propagation
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Offsets (pups)
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Stem cuttings