Echeveria

SECUNDA 'Compton Carousel'

 by Roy Mottram.

Echeveria secunda 'Lenore Dean' unest. name. At first known by this name in California, with modified spelling of Lenora, but lacks any known description. [Lenora Dean is the name of an elderly lady in whose private garden in Compton, S of Los Angeles, California, this variegated mutant was first discovered in a colony of its normal green form by a visitor, David Sheppard, horticulturist & garden designer of Sonoma, San Francisco. He referred to it as Echeveria secunda 'DS-2009'. David Sheppard was born in Marin County and moved to the town of Sonoma, California, in the 1980s. He was Director of Horticulture for the Quarryhill Botanical Garden 1989-2001, then went into business on his own in 2001. Redesigned the garden of Willa & Ned Mundell]

Echeveria secunda 'Compton Carousel' Cubey, Plants given RHS Exhibition Awards 2007-2008, Hanburyana 4: 72. (Sep) 2009 [publ. 28 Oct 2009] (“glauca”).

Echeveria Serenity 'Compton Carousel' PPAF Planthaven 15 Sep 2014.

Etym: Named for the city of Compton, S of Los Angeles, California, in reference to its place of origin.

?ST: Photo of a sterile rosette, in Southfield Nurseries Mail Order List April 2010/2011 (illustrated supplement: [4]). (19 Mar) 2010, where the cultivar is said to have been “given to us to help propagate” about 2003 by a landscape gardener, who collected variegated plants. He said that it had no name, but that 'Compton Carousel' would be appropriate.

Obs: Granted an RHS Award of Merit on 16 Aug 2008 by the Tender Ornamental Plants Committee. PlantHaven Inc., Santa Barbara, have a patent pending on the trademark name Serenity, based on this plant.

 

 

Photo of a sterile rosette, in Southfield Nurseries Mail Order List April 2010/2011, the nomenclatural standard.

Plant James Barry Slabbert
Photos Jacquie Koutsoudis


Photo Ed Dunin-Wasowicz

The rosette is 10 cm high and its diameter is 16 cm, stem 5 cm, offsetting from the base.

Photos Georges Meunier

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