Yes I wish you could have been here too. It is all abloom with wonderful plants, I could go bankrupt.

They seemed to have just one plant of the Grigg's surprise left and I bought It!!!!

But it was so hot and I failed to take water with me ... I got really overheated, so I bought two plants, I'll send pictures. You are so right that is a wonderful nursery.

I did find a couple of rocks, but most of theirs that I loved were humongous and I could not lift them... I would have had to bring one of the little boys home with me ... well .. No NO I will not go there.

SIL

CDsSister said:I did find a couple of rocks, but most of theirs that I loved were humongous and I could not lift them... I would have had to bring one of the little boys home with me ... well .. No NO I will not go there. SIL

Just think of all the work they could get done for you. But you have to remember, they can put away a lot of food.
Can't wait to see a photo of your two new plants.

You must remember to take water with you on these excursions. Lots of water.
Glad you made it home okay.

What is procedure, where should I post my new buys? Here or somewhere else?

Thanks

SIL

Here you go Sis. The thread "2012 Photos and Chat" in Sempervivum forum
Great thread to post your new photos.
Can't wait to see them.
Also, here is the list of the different Forum threads. All different kinds of topics. http://garden.org/forums/view/...

I can't wait to see your Banana Surprise.

I posted a few pics--- not great quality but at least you can see some detail.

The thread "2012 Photos and Chat" in Sempervivum forum

Marilyn -- Iris from DBG

Does anyone know if Mountain Crest Gardens is still in business. I am unable to access their website. Becky

They are still in business. They have a new design to the website, so I think they are still working out the glitches. Sometimes you have to try to access the site a few times before it actually goes through.

It does look like the site is down right now. It should be up and running soon Becky.

Hi Lynn - noticed you are in OR and that you listed SquawMt as online nursery for semps. Have you ever gone there to look at their inventory? I talked once to a customer service person and they mentioned possible season for public browsing but then decided against it. Have you heard/read anything of them ever opening to the public? I have fantasized for years about a car trip to Squaw Mt with a very willing husband who says he will drive me to Oregon...

Hi webesemps. Glad you found your way here to the sempervivum forum.
I have been to Squaw Mountain Gardens several times, some years back. It is truly an amazing place to go. I used to take a sack lunch and spend the day. Those were the good old days.
They no longer allow visitors to the nursery.
Wouldn't it be the most amazing thing if they had a one day a year 'Open House'.
I understand why they don't though. It can cause an awful lot of chaos with mixing plants up, and many other reasons.
They are probably the largest grower of semps in the United States, and they do some of their own hybridizing. They are very serious about their semps.

Don is a wonderful person to do business with, I've been buying SMG semps for years. He has a serious of his own plants, the series is called Jazz. Semps named after old jazz songs. You can find his semps by doing a search in the database. Use this link and type in Don Mylin as the hybridizer. It will bring up a list of his Jazz Series plants.
It is a great feature, you can search for semps from other hybridizers and other criteria. http://garden.org/plants/group....

Where do you live, and what zone are you in webesemps?

Thanks Lynn, I will have to substitute my fantasy of SMG with your memory of afternoons noshing at SMG. Love your idea of annual Open House.

I used to order from SMG but found that browsing by screen is not the same as holding the pot in your hand and really looking at the near actual color, form and size of a particular semp. Nowadays I subject myself to motion sickness on a very winding road 2 hr. drive to the California coast town of Fort Bragg where there's a succulent nursery called Simply Succulent. And, there is where I can be as tactile and visually satisfied by the owner's four long aisles of potted semps on the ground for as long as I want before she closes for the day.

I am in California Zone 9. Thanks for the fun info of place and people (Don)!

Bev

Now I am having envy of your trips to Simply Succulent Nursery. I have a number of plants that came from them.
Have you been to the Sempervivum part of our plant database here at ATP?

Just noticed that there's two succulent nurseries named Simply Succulent; one in Wisconsin (why is everything "temporarily out of stock?) and the other in California.

Just perused (sp?) the Semp database and there's much info to be had. Sorry to say that I'm one of those people that wouldn't be able to answer any one asking if I had any "Dolle Dina" or "Pacific Hazy Amber" or "S. Calcareum" but I can tell the difference between Haworthia and Gasteria plants.

Just wondering how you group your semps in your raised beds. I go by color; purples on one side; reds on other side.

I plant them in a way that each of it's neighbors have an entirely different look. That way if they start to grow into each others territory I can tell them apart when thinning.
I love to have the colors mixed through out the bed for contrast. For me it adds interest.
Last fall I started adding small type alpine plants for more color throughout the growing season, and bulbs that produce miniature plants that won't over take the semps.
http://garden.org/thread/view_...

Can I ask what you mean by "thinning"? and what does it do?
And the pics of your beds are unbelievable! It looks like you have some jumbo sized semps? How big are the ones that look so large?

I take the large clumps apart, send them to new homes and replant just a few from the clump. Fall is a good time for me to do that, then they will have room next spring when they take off growing again. Many of them are such heavy producers of offsets. This also helps with air flow around the rosettes so they won't rot during our rainy season.
This year I had several that attained just short of 12" across the main rosette.

Wow Lynn, those are huge! I don't think I've ever had any over maybe 9".

I had some that matured this year, and before they bloomed they got really big. I'll have to go through my records and see if I wrote down which ones got that big.
The bed that was producing that size in 2 or 3 cultivars is the long bed we put in last year. It was filled with composted steer manure mixed with clay and sand. I think that is why they got that size.
I didn't have any in the other beds attain that size.

Hi Lynn, long time no see! I've had such a busy summer, and things are only now winding down. I wonder if you could add my micro nursery to your thread - being one of the only mail order Sempervivum and Sedum nurseries in Canada has to count for something!

I sure can Jacki. Can you give me a link for the entry point. Your has gone through some amazing changes. It has been so much fun to see all that your are doing in Canada.