Beautiful colors!

Before (April 2018)

(Early June 2018)

(Today late June 2018)

This one survived the squirrel buffet only because the critters failed to eat the central portion of the rosettes. Out of spite, it sent out all these pups.

These are pretty special as their mom was about 8” in diameter. They are very beautiful it not as big as their mom.

Not semps but it’s close relative, the rosularias and jovibarba. They all got busy putting out their offsets.

You know, Chris, I know (from my email receipts) that I bought a bunch of jovibarbas and rosularias and shoved them all in that pot. Can't tell which anymore though. I may have that one. Gonna have to look closer.

This is the mother clump of the rosularia. Lower 2 pics are as of last April 2018.

two bowls.

(apparently a lot has changed here)

greets Harry

Knowing how long you've been growing semps, these look like young pots, Harry. And I know you have tons in the ground, too!

This could be the jovibarba that is unaccounted for:

Last March:

Last May:

Early June:

This has been baking under full sun since April.

Pagan: I'm repotting everything right now. Neglected them to long; so you are right: new pots. The plants in the garden do fine.

I have just fallen in love with Sempervivums!!

Hablu did you buy the pots with the partitions or did you add them? Whichever, I love them.

You've all got beautiful Semps. One day........

They're great, Helen--you can literally ignore them (and I do).

Even better lol

Helen, those are parts of broken old pots. (What is your word for it?)

Lol. For the parts of broken old pots? In Aussie slang? bits of ol' pots ;-D. I'll have to try to make one - one day. I'd better copy your picture. Thanks hablu. It looks great, just right for those beautiful Semps :-)

Those bowls are nice to make, but I have them to make sure that no species vanishes in the garden without knowing. It's my back up in fact. Main goal is to put them eventually in the garden.

Aha! This is what I was waiting for, Harry. The ground stuff. It's why I started planting mine in the ground, too, especially around my pond. I'm making pockets around it where I can put more semps in.

Your semps are inspiring!

Well call me jealous, folks! Beautiful plants!!

I don't know if it is the humidity and excess rain, the heat (nah, others are hotter) or the lack of a cool dormant period, but I just can't grow Semps. I've tried in 3 different places around my yard and all have passed quietly. Sun or bright shade, pots or PIG, all have died. Some faster than others -

My ground and pot semps have survived a week of 40C, but it was dry and didn't rain. I lose them when it is hot AND raining. So I pop the umbrella when it rains in summer to protect my pot. The ones in the ground just have to grin and bear it (they don't lol). Interestingly, the semps I have in terraced nooks around the pond seem to survive both rain AND heat happening at the same time. They just look ugly lol Survival rate is most probably higher there because they drain quickly.

I rarely get over 37C, but I do get rain with the summer heat. I see these pictures and think, "I need to give it another go!." Maybe I can find a good spot that I can protect from the rain. My rains generally come with winds, so I'll have to be sure the cover won't blow away. Thanks for the tip!

Not to hot in summer and a good rain now and than. That's the secret I think. In winter not to wet and some freezing days.

greets Harry

Harry

Do you overwinter any of your potted semps in any kind of shelter? Or are they all outside? IIRC, you have area that is under the roof, and has at least 3 walls, but I wonder if it is open otherwise (meaning no door).

Btw, your Oddity is much more compact than mine, and yours are also darker green...even if I keep them in lots of sun. I do not have any right now in ground - not sure if that makes any difference. Mine seems to be etiolated comparing to yours:

Hello Rina (long time);

Yes, in wintertime they are in my plantshed. It's open on two sides and protects them from to much rain. The roof is transparant; so they get enough light. They go in there somewhere at the end of november; mostley soaking wet, but after that they don't get any water until -say- half march. And than out again in the open. We don't have many frostweeks and hardly ever below minus 10 C. There are hardly losses in that way.The gardenplants stay all year around in weather and wind in the garden. Practicly no losses during winter.

Your oddity seems a bit strechted, but not to much. I have some in pots too and they look about the same as the ones in the garden (see pic below).

these days I'm reorganising everything; clean roots; devide some clones and start again with the pots (and save some from the garden). Somewhere september (after summerheat) I will plant a lot out again. Before winter they will be steady and survive whatever comes. (the gardenbeds are raised (put higher) and thouroughly drainable.

greets from Fryslân.

Oh, I have Oddity! So that's what they were. I just snagged them from a BBS somewhere because they looked funky. The second one is in part-shade.