What semps grow in mounds for you?

Here are some of mine. Each has it's own form of mounding and beauty.

Koko Flanel on the left and Ali on the right.


Oddity


Regal


Super Dome


Silver Baby


Hookerii


Comolii


Pixie


Zarubianum


Ann-Marie


Irazou

Gee Lynn, you should have separated those into mounds, hills and mountains! Photo of Ann-Marie looks to depict a hill of cathedrals!

I would say that Ann-Marie looks like miniature red and green basalt cliffs! Lynn you sure do an extraordinary job at growing (successfully!) such a large collection of semp varieties. to you .

Bev, Love the Comolii and the Ann-Marie.

Well actually all of them. They are really great litttle mountains of joy.

Thank you all. Can't wait to see your mounding semps.

When I was looking at Ann-Marie, the first thing that came to mind was cathedral spires. Even before I took the photo.
Super Dome would have been a much taller/bigger mound, except I divided it up last year. It was down to a single layer of a few rosettes. This is one of Cynda's (Perennial Obsessions) favorite semps. Sure glad she talked me into that one.

The Oddity is a bit disconcerting to me. It fascinates me, but is so disorganized, not much in the beauty department. But I still love if the it's fascinating growth pattern.

It really never occurred to me to let mine mound. I thought when they started getting bunchie it meant it was time to divide them, like you do iris etc. I loved the look on some of Lynn's but on some I felt a claustrophobic compulsion to want to free them from getting mashed.

I think those mounds are their natural habitat

I didn't know any better and didn't have a good mentor like Lynn to help me out!

That's the nice thing about gardening, in particular the sempervivum. There are so many ways to do it.
Keep them low growing, with offsets ringing the parent rosette, in beds/borders, containers/crafts. We have it all.
Or let them mound. I like having them both ways, but some are just natural mounders.

I always thought as Patty that if I let them get squeezed it was not healthy. Now that I see what you have going on Lynn I like it.

Give it a try Cinta.