I think now would be a good time to prune your fuschias quite hard. Mine (a perennial variety whose name I forget) came with instructions to cut it down almost to ground level each winter. I didn't want to believe that, and I've seen beautiful wild (feral?) fuschias in the hedge-banks of Devon which clearly aren't cut back so hard in winter. So I didn't cut mine. Then last winter and the one before, we got hard frosts by British standards and my fuschia appeared to be killed. But no, it sprouted back from the base and grew into a 4' high shrub covered in flowers. This winter we've cut it back very hard with secateurs because the frost didn't do it for us.
Your succulents are etiolating unless the sempervivum are coming into bloom which at this time of the year I rather doubt. Sempervivum "hens-and-chicks" makes a tall, weird-looking flower stalk, very Star Trek TOS, actually. But it is a separate stalk, and not the entire plant stretching upward for light and getting all thin and leggy on you, which your echeveria will do, too, so it's not hard to tell the difference.
Improve the lighting (either natural daylight or fluorescent lighting) and give them haircuts. You can root the cuttings to grow on as new plants, or you can simply discard what you've cut away.
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Improve the lighting (either natural daylight or fluorescent lighting) and give them haircuts. You can root the cuttings to grow on as new plants, or you can simply discard what you've cut away.
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