Certain plants disappear for me for most of the year -- there's just nothing remarkable about them, or perhaps they get overshadowed by other things.
As summer marches on and my wishlist of projects grows -- with items being added more quickly than I can take them off -- the last thing I need is something else to do. This is when I really appreciate the parts of the garden that don't need much attention to stay looking good, like this trio of potted sempervivum...
I thought the Sempervivums were looking pretty interesting the other day.
Last winter I bought a lot of different varieties of Sempervivum, or "hen and chicks". I grew them under lights for the last part of winter and the first part of spring to give them a jump on the growing season. My idea was to fill a planting bed with their varied colors and textures.
Almost exactly a year ago I purchased and received several different sempervivum plants. I think there were 30 different types? This post talks about them at the time I got them, but I figured it was about time for an update.
I'm terrible when growing spring greens. I've thought about it a little and I'm pretty sure there are a few mistakes I make, but the main one is I'm not good at thinning. Some of the pots of greens I planted on my deck (for convenience -- no need to make the long trek down to the veggie garden) exhibit this quite clearly:
I wanted to take some more photos of my sempervivum flowers before they all faded, to show the variety in the blooms. After a few shots though, I realized their differences were subtle.
Things change and progress in a garden -- that's what they tend to do, whether or not you do anything. Here's an update on pretty much everything going on in my garden right now. Starting with the catcus seedlings:
The other day I received a package of plants as part of a trade. I took a brief look at the plants then, but didn't want to unwrap them completely as I wasn't ready to plant.
Getting plants via mail order is fun and exciting. You place the order, wait a week or two, and a box shows up full of new plants. If you've never done it, you should give it a try.
That "best of the year" post I did the other day took a lot of time, and took a lot out of me. So today it's short and to the point. Time for another update on the cactus seedlings and sempervivum.
Just under two weeks ago I received a large order of new plants: a few sedums and two dozen sempervivum species and hybrids. I potted them up right away and put them on my growing table indoors under lights. They were shipped bare root and were a little dehydrated, but it didn't take them long for them to wake up after potting.
Yesterday I potted the sedums from my newly-arrived plant order. Since that only emptied five of the brown paper bags, there are many more to go today: 24 to be exact. They're all the same genus of cold-hardy succulents: sempervivum.
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