I better get busy then, don't want a fail certificate issued. Where is the wringing hands emoticon?

Concert at the clinic? Trust me... bad idea!

I must correct a terrible imbalance in my semp garden. I have only two Huefs and they live in pots in the greenhouse.
See how dry, warm and cozy they look. Happy as clams. I don't think they mind the greenhouse one bit.
But next year they must break out into the real world.

'Bronze Ingot' and 'Irene'


There will be lots more Heufs next year, I'm working on it.

Absolutely lovely photo Tim. How could we not love the hueffs. Glad to hear that you will be adding to your heuff collection.

I can play a radio, or cd player for the Clinic Concert.

Can you explain the different types. I remember you did it in the 2015 thread but maybe make it a sticky?

Anna, do you mean the different types of sempervivum? As they are all in one genus now. If that is what you mean I think that would be a great idea to give that information it's own thread. Let me know if that is what you mean.

We've sure been having some brutal weather. -15 deg. at night, struggling to hit zero degrees during the day, windchills 25-30 below zero. Brrrrrr. Looking at some semp pictures from last year so I have something to look forward to. Here are a few of my European varieties.

Rectonii


Mary Beth


Intensity


Choctaw


Picasso

Choctaw ,really nice.

All really nice, Chris. Funny how the rock surrounding the Picasso had taken on their coloring?
Must be the light? I had to look up photos of Picasso and see that they can be very intensely "mottled" in color. Yours look perfect in that picture! Keep warm!

They are beautiful Chris. I really love the color contrast in Rectonii. And the color changes in it are amazing.

I don't even want to think about being in weather like you are having Chris. Stay warm and safe.

All beautiful but that Rectonii is eye catching with the lime green. That is so cold, just can't imagine.
I guess I'll take a look at mine today, see if any are picture worthy. Not sure if any of you have noticed but it is still light at 5:00 PM now! Spring is ever so slowly creeping up on winter.

Ahhh.... pictures... glorious pictures. So soothing, and promising of fair weather to come. Yes, I've noticed the days getting longer. The chickens don't go in until after 5:00 now when it used to be dark at 4:30. And I can see the sun hovering up over the treetops in the morning shining increasing amounts of sunlight on the semp garden.

I am all in for longer daylight. I know the night time temps are up in the 40's now.
Soon it will be glorious spring, with sunshine and warmth.

Tim your 'Pacific Devil's Food' is really looking great.

A truck came by today and dropped literally a ton of rocks in my driveway. I wonder what shall I do with them.

DUH...
Get to it Tim...you'll need a European Bed, won't you?

webesemps said:DUH...
Get to it Tim...you'll need a European Bed, won't you?

Yes, how true. By the time spring gets here I should have two sizable and completely unoccupied beds to fill. And maybe 60 new varieties coming.

Big Spender, Tim!

I can laugh at you Tim, because I am having a pallet of new cinder blocks delivered, translating to 3 new raised beds.
Plus I have all the new plants I've ordered that will be growing around and in those beds. Things that like the same conditions as the semps.
Specie bulbs are already popping up, and the low growing sedum are coming out of dormancy, as is the buckwheat, orostachys, specie dianthus, allium, and a kazillion other types of plants. Oh yes, and the tiny miniature iris.

valleylynn said:Anna, do you mean the different types of sempervivum? As they are all in one genus now. If that is what you mean I think that would be a great idea to give that information it's own thread. Let me know if that is what you mean.

Yes, like the difference between Huef?,rollers and all the other words the "in crowd" uses!

They used to be divided into Sempervivum and Jovibarba. The name of Jovibarba has been dropped and all are now under the Genus of Sempervivum.

The Jovibarba used to consisted of species: heuffelii, globiferum (consisting of a number of subspecies), now these are Sempervivum heuffelii and such. These species and subspecies also have a different form of bloom than what we all considered as sempervivum. Can you see the difference in the flowers?


heuffelii, which have rosettes that look very similar to sempervivum, but do not produce offsets on stolons like sempervivum. They reproduce by forming new rosettes from the same crown as the parent rosette.


globiferum, and many of it's subspecies, reproduce by offsets formed on very thin brittle stolons that break away from the parent rosette and usually roll away from the parent. They can even settle on their tops, but will send roots out and pull them into position for rooting into the ground.
These are the ones that go by the common name of 'Rollers'. They are so much fun to have in the garden. Little travelers.
A few of the roller types.


Hope this explanation made sense?

Thanks Lynn for the explanation! Anna if you've ever seen a semp that looked slightly deformed with several crowns in the same rosette that was probably the heuffelli type (heuf's for short!)
Here is one of my favs in that type 'Torrid Zone'

See now you're in with the "In crowd"