My new pictures for the Year 2015

Spring begin but yet very cold here :)


calcareum S.Antonio Realdo mt1200 ET88 Italy


heuffelii glabrum Debar Road PH 220, Macedonia

Love them!

Pictures, the the pictures! Those are some beauties!

Thanks for the photo treat, Chromo!

Lovely Chroma. What can you tell us about the last photo?

A seedling. I don't know the exactly parentage because I found this seedling between the stones of the driveway of my garage .
Maybe a mixture with S. tectorum arvernense and 'Pacific Sexy' ?
Leaves are red and brilliants in spring but green in others seasons. Rosettes are little (2 cm) and the plant is very prolific.

You can see the first original rosette here in spring 2014

That is lovely! When you have enough chicks from that one, perhaps you'll share them around? Maybe Kevin can make it something official?

Oliver ~ that last one is a beauty! (MR ~ he's in the EU )

It is a beauty Oliver. So sad you are in EU and we are in the US. Would be nice to easily exchange plants.

Why not ?

Because of the import laws. Which country do you live in?

Belgium. Here, we don't have laws to import plants in Belgium (if it's for a hobby) but I don't know if you have laws concerning my country.
I send often killifish eggs (fish) in USA with no problem

The U.S. has some very stringent rules about receiving plants into the country.

Yes, I know but how do you do to have houseleeks because semp live in Europa and not in North America ?

Way back when, it was legal to just send plants back and forth across the oceans. Now we have to pay fees for different documents and inspections to receive plants from other countries.
Then there was a group in the U.S. that started hybridizing for new varieties. That is how we have so many new varieties in the U.S. over the decades.
There are a few of us that have purchased from Fernwood (England) and Erwin Geiger (Germany), but it is very expensive.

Fantastic semps Chromaphyto you must have a truly wonderful collection .

MotherRaphaela said:That is lovely! When you have enough chicks from that one, perhaps you'll share them around? Maybe Kevin can make it something official?

Honestly, I think that is a very minor plant

valleylynn said:
Then there was a group in the U.S. that started hybridizing for new varieties. That is how we have so many new varieties in the U.S. over the decades.

Yes, but you don't have botanical species and it's a pity !
If I send a simple letter with one rosette by species, Do you think it's possible ?

Paddy said:Fantastic semps Chromaphyto you must have a truly wonderful collection .

I don't have many cultivars but I have +/- 350 botanical species/clones

Oliver that is an impressive amount of species sempervivum.