Honestly mine are looking a bit crispy. Light is not very good because it's the end of the day.

Ewwmayo, My semps were pouting during summer but remained green the entire time. They didn’t like the location of my new house. Yours, however, look very nice with the stress.

Below is my rosularia. I planted some in a pot to take inside the house as “insurance”. Most of the clump is outside. Last winter, none of my rosularia outside survived. It probably sat in wet soil and froze to death.

Chris

Looks like your semps are indoors too, under some purple-pink LED lights? Mine are all outdoors, many in containers. I am about 120km north of Kevin - they may look worse than his! It is dark to see them now and there is some snow covering them...

I do not have any rosularias, but believe they are not as hardy as 'typical' semps.

Rina, each one in pots are the "insurance" plants. It is sitting in a south facing window now. I always make it a point to safeguard some specimens I like in case the mother clump die outside. Half of my Sempervivum calcareum didn't make it from last year. I was pretty sure the soil was dry and were planted on the ground. So I select the prettiest ones this year to "back-up". LOL

Yes, the rosularia is under LED lights.

I am surprised that S. calcareum didn't make it; it is supposedly hardy at least to z5 - I think even lower, survives in my location - and I have seen it advertised as z2 hardy but that may be stretching it! I have also Oddity that is listed as z6 but I have seen them listed as low as z2 - can't tell which one is correct. It survived last winter outdoors. No special protection, just very well draining mix (gritty) and in a plastic container. My friends in z6 (same location as Kevin) have it - and many other semps - growing all over the rocks, with hardly any soil.

It was probably something I did or I didn't do. It agree with you, it was supposed to be very cold hardy. so I was disappointed by the calcareum's demise last year. I did learn they do better when neglected. I probably pampered them to death. LOL

Beautiful picture, pluto! The snow looks like crystals!

Best of luck with your sempervivums. I have mine in the garage.

hpanna

If you have any garden spot, they would be better overwintering there. They will get light, some moisture they need.

pluto

Great photo. Is that terracotta bowl? They crack during winter quite easily. It may happen right away, or in few years. After loosing few, I keep mine in plastic look-alikes.

yes, it's terracotta. I know they have a bad habit of cracking, but I want to find a spot in my rock border to nestle the pot in, then over the years let it crack and the Semps can escape. Hopefully it will make it through this winter intact

Pluto, that's so funny, I also have the sedum tiny urchin accompany my semps in their plastic containers. LOL.

Your semps look pretty. I managed to snap pics of mine before the snow covered them.