Hen and chicks -- who knew?

[thistlebloom]

Well, imagine my embarrassment! I thought you guys were talking about this kind of hen and chicks. HahahaView attachment 12718 !!!

That's funny KD! Why are they illegal? Are they opium producers?

 

[Larisa]

@aftermidnight It is on our planet? It looks awesome!

 

[aftermidnight]

@Larisa yes this little garden center is on our planet. http://www.wigplants.com/succulents/succulents-2 It's a good job I can only get to it once a year, I'd be broke.
They carry lots of the more tender succulents as well as the hardy sempervivums, in fact I think he actually brought some back from Australia. I had to cut my collection of succulents down a couple of years ago due to illness but I still have quite a few, This picture was taken in 2012, one of the benches in my greenhouse.


Lately the Sedum bug has hit me and I've started collecting those, I have one pretty little ground cover type I've had for years and have just learned which one it is, it came in a pot of another plant I bought.

Sedum pallidum from Anatolia


In bloom

I'm hoping to make up a few more succulent containers this year with the ones I have left, of course there may be another trip to this little garden center next month .

Annette

 

[Larisa]

The climate allows me to grow only the most persistent.
yellow

 

[aftermidnight]

@Larisa it's hard to tell the color of the flowers in your last sedum picture, be still my heart, could it be the elusive Sedum caeruleum, this one actually has blue flowers.
It's an annual so you have to save seed, I had this one for about three years, the pot I had it in got either dumped or misplaced so I lost it and I haven't been able to find seed anywhere since.

 

[Larisa]

@aftermidnight
This white - pink. Probably best seen here.
I do not even know that there are blue! I think the blue color unusual for them.

 

[aftermidnight]

@Larisa yes the flowers are actually blue, I'm still trying to track down some seed but haven't been successful so far. This link http://www.robsplants.com/plants/SedumCaeru
shows the color pretty well.
Annette

 

[baymule]

@Larisa your rock garden is simply beautiful. You must get such a feeling of peace when you enjoy your garden.

 

[Nyboy]

I agree beautiful, but how much weeding to keep looking good?

 

[Larisa]

@Larisa your rock garden is simply beautiful. You must get such a feeling of peace when you enjoy your garden.

It's true! Garden - a relaxation in any weather.

There are many different "green corners".

I agree beautiful, but how much weeding to keep looking good?

And it is true! Weeding - it's an ambush, of course. But when I do weeding, I listen to beautiful ethno, folk or ballads.

And time disappears along with the weeds.