Can you help me identify one houseplant, and one outdoor plant please?

[*oh*no*i*just*wet*my*espadrilles*]

The big spiky one is a succulent that grows in a spiral (and currently has a flowering spike), and the other is a cutting with triangular fleshy stems.

Thanks!

[duck_a_lorange]

The first one looks a lot like a carnation or pink.

The flowering stripy one looks like a Mother-in-law's Tongue (Sansevieria).  It looks extremely healthy (and needs a new pot!)

[*oh*no*i*just*wet*my*espadrilles*]

Hi

I've got a variagated mother in laws tongue, and its not like that 🙂

The triangular stemmed plant I've just discovered is a perennial Mesembryanthemum.

[*oh*no*i*just*wet*my*espadrilles*]

'The triangular stemmed plant I've just discovered is a perennial Mesembryanthemum'

Oops, it's not, its a Hottentot fig (Carpobrotus edulis)

http://creative.plantdatabase.info/plant_imgs/primary/Carpobrotus_edulis_I31620P39836.jpg

[i-am-legion-too]

No idea on first pic, but second looks like Aloe variegata/zebra or tiger plant. Flowering spikes are pinky/orange.

[chickengrandma-2008]

Yes, second one is an aloe, very good for burns etc. but no idea what the first one is.

[ilove2patch]

The first one grows outside around here on the South Coast. No idea what it's called though. The other one is an Aloe.

[rsjlew]

Could the first one be Rock Samphire?

[ilove2patch]

It's Hottentot Fig.

[rsjlew]

Ah right, sorry didn't see the link

[captainbovine]

Hottentot Fig, what a fabulous name for a plant.

the second is Aloe, easy to take cuttings off too.

[*oh*no*i*just*wet*my*espadrilles*]

Thanks! (and to everyone else too )

I sussed the fig one last night - I just love the shape of the stems.

I live not too far away from Dartmouth, and nicked that cutting from a plant that was growing rampantly down the walled garden of a cottage there.  I just need to suss out how to plant the cutting.

[ilove2patch]

It grows everywhere here to in Dorset. Glad you got it sorted.

[*oh*no*i*just*wet*my*espadrilles*]

Having warmer winters on the south coast, must be why it survives.  It's odd I've not seen it before though.

[*oh*no*i*just*wet*my*espadrilles*]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tiger+aloe&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=IM...

That's the one, thank you 🙂

It has three 'babies' growing in the soil, can I leave them there?

[ilove2patch]

You can or you can carefully break them off & plant it gritty compost.

[*oh*no*i*just*wet*my*espadrilles*]

Thanks 🙂

If I break the fig plant into smaller sections, and do the same, would they root?  (I love plants, but I'm no good at this kind of thing!)

[ilove2patch]

Not sure but it grows like a weed here so probly easy to propogate.

http://grow.ars-informatica.ca/plant.php?en=512&nm=Hottentot%20fig

[*oh*no*i*just*wet*my*espadrilles*]

Thanks, I got no sand here to make gritty soil, so it looks like I'll have to go to the beach tomorrow - I hope I don't get washed away all for the sake of a plant cutting 

[ilove2patch]

Wash it well or the salt will kill it.