I purchased these from Lynn and just wanted to share some photos of my newly planted semps. Thank you Lynn
Sempervivum 'Tesoro'

Sempervivum 'Silver Web'

Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Shampoo'

Those fill in very quickly. Like a potato chip, you can't have just one.

I have about 50 on my want list already. Hopefully buying a few now will put in a position to trade a few later down the road. Lynn said the need good drainage so I used 5 gallon pots and filled them 1/3 the way up with with chunks of bricks and rocks then added potting soil mixed with grit, sand, and perlite. Hopefully this will be enough drainage for them. She also said they don't need to have their foliage touching damp soil so I added the rock mulch as precautionary measure. I sure hope I can keep them alive it's always kind of scary venturing into unknown until you get a feel for what the plants like and what they don't.

You will get a feeling for them Daniel. Won't be long before you know if they are happy or not, then just make minor adjustments until you find the perfect growing conditions for you unique climate.

Thanks Lynn you have been a huge help

I look forward to watching your semps grow.

Congrats Daniel! Hope they grow well for you!

Grow, little semps, grow! I agree it's impossible to have only a few. I had a few NOIDs and odds and ends, then wanted to collect all the recognized species and wild forms. Then I noticed how lonely and mostly green they looked, and I had to have some red ones... and some yellowish ones... and some pink ones... and some red and green ones...

I think Paul is officially a true sempaholic.

Looks like I'm heading down the same path with both semps and sedums. Is adding more varieties the only cure I can't lie the more I look on the database the more varieties I want to add to the garden I'm up to 160 semps on my want list now.
If anyone has any named sempervivum rosettes they'd like to trade for some fig and pomegranate cuttings this November please let me know. I grow about 120 different named fig trees and about 70 different named pomegranate trees. I doubt my baby semps and sedums will produce enough by then to trade them but I will have extra Dunce's Cap (Orostachys malacophylla var. iwarenge) that I put in some small pots I can trade also.
I'm so excited about growing Sempervivum. You should have seen the look on my wife's face when I told her I'm starting a new plant collection. She don't understand my passion for plants. I not only enjoy growing and propagating a wide array of plants I also hybridize a few so I have a bunch of different seedlings I'm always evaluating. I plan on trying my hand at hybridizing a few semps one day also.

Daniel you need to come to the 2017 Hybridizing Clinic next April.

Yep Daniel, the only cure is more plants My other plant obsessions are herbs, echeverias, and cacti, especially Opuntia, and the sight of a new clipping or plant always earns me, "You bought another one?!" Here is an appropriate photo my sister sent to me the other day.

haha exactly!!

I love it, I wish I had a shirt with that on it.