What a great way to start Celebrating Sempervivum, with a small taste of what these plants can do in the color department.

FYI, the last photo, 'Positively Glowing' is one of Kevin Vaughn's new hybrids. I think it will be coming on the market later this spring through Young's Garden Center. It is even more beautiful to see it up close and personal. I can't wait to have this one in my garden.

Sempies!
love em, even the blah, noid, garden variety, came with the house, so let's spread them around variety

'old boot sempy'
sure--why not?

Awesome photo dirtdorphins. We had the same ones here when we bought this place in 1999. They are such tough semps, and beautiful. What more could you ask for?
Is it growing out of the side of the boot?

It's a hole in the top of the bridge above the toe, sedum out the sides below, and a mix up top--they like to be tortured like this

Ahh, I can see that now. And yes, they think it is love.

What great photos. I still have a leaning for the red ones.

Great pictures! I have to admit, I don't know much about sempervivum, but will pay more attention at the garden centers this spring.

I've only known sempervivum as hen and chicks, and only have one that is probably the garden variety type. It was added to my garden in 2012 after my dad passed away and I put it in his old work boots. They have grown a lot (as have the weeds and creeping phlox around them!)

2012


2014

I have come to a point in life that I love them all, for the contrast in the beds. But that also depends on what catches my eye each day that I go out. Who know what my favorite will be today or tomorrow.

We cross posted Vickie. I looks like you have two different semps. The contrast they provide is very nice. They will probably overflow the boots this year.

I have a semp in memory of my mother, it is very special to me since is has the same name.

gorgeous!
I am so mesmerized by the ones with 'water marks' and I need to get some

Gorgeous is right! I didn't see the watermarks on 'Peggy' until I clicked on the picture. Very lovely

Lynn, good to know I may have two different varieties. I remember buying them, but I don't even know if they were labeled or not. Two years ago, I thought there was only one kind of hen and chicks I've learned a lot since then!

I thought you two might like the watermarkings.

Vickie, there are many hundreds of different named cultivars, ranging anywhere from rosettes the size of your pinky fingernail, to ones that are up to 11 or 12 inches across, in many different colors. Many of which change color from season to season.
It is so easy to get hooked on them.

This is one of the very tiny ones.

Very cute!

It is one of my favorite tiny ones.

Love the boots! Lynn, that Peggy is stunning! Those watermarks are wonderful!

It is like a beacon of light in the bed when it is in that color faze.

Your photo is dated 8/9 so is it that color in August? Fabulous!!!!

Yes, that is the coloration in August. I think the heat brings out the watermarks. Going out to see what it looks like right now. This is me running because it is raining.

This is what it looks like today 3/14/2015

Thank you Lynn, even more fabulous!!!!! I'm just about ready to go take a few pictures of mine. Love semps in the rain.

Love your "Peggy" pictures. They are wonderful. How pleased your mama would be to know you have a reminder (and such a beauty) of her to see so often.

I really admire the pictures in the rain but not sure I have the fortitude to get out and take pictures as you real semp growers do. (remember where I was in the rain at last year's clinic)