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dulcimore11 said: My back went out last year. Its improved a fair bit with physical therapy but its still delicate and its obvious to me I'll have to cut back on some things, including my sempervivum collection. I' m going to keep some of my favorites and let the rest go. I'm looking for an experienced semp hobbyist with a collecting compulsion in my locality who would like them. They're in 6" and 8" pots. Some named, some noids. Includes a fair number of heufflis, and a few sedums. Maybe a total of 40 pots. Some duplicates, some mixed pots. Because I had to neglect them last year, some are not in peak shape. But I'm doing some repotting, and the ones I don't get to will still come back very nicely with division and a modicum of tlc. Nothing rare, but some good solid cultivars. This is an all or nothing offer...the person who adopts these will have to take the lot. They'll be ready to go in a couple of weeks. Anyone around Rochester, NY interested?

How the story ends - I didn't get any local bites on my offer, so I took Lynn's advice and looked up our local Master Gardeners program. Their plant sale is tomorrow and they were very happy to take what I had to offer. I took them over to the sale site yesterday and today. Maybe 70 pots, including sedums and trough plants. I was pleased to be able to offer them to a worthy organization. I decided not to offer the heuffeliis, as I feel those are a bit different in requirement from standard semps, and I thought they might not find good homes. I'll figure out what to do with my extra heuffeliis later. Not counting the heuffeliis, Ive kept a little over 30 cultivars, about a third of them noids that have been with me for years and have proved their worth. So here's a couple of photos. The first was my semp collection in its heyday a few years ago...a crazy quilt of cultivars in 6" and 8" pots. I loved how they looked in May when they were in their best color. The second photo is the same area today...more austere, but I'm still keeping my hand in, and it will be more manageable. I have several additional tubs placed here and there in my yard. So life goes....