ok so now i am really feeling brave.
this one is 'Frosty'

the words are the wrong place for frosty but it's the big single
this one is 'purple passion'

Cynthia, those are great pictures! They all look really good but I really like s. 'Chocolate'.

What a great way to start my day, wonderful photos from Cynthia. Those are great photos, and awesome plants.
Are these your first semps Cynthia, or do you have others?

Wow, can't wait to see S. 'Fame Montrose' when it opens up. How odd the leaves are, and fascinating. It will be very interesting to see what S.'Chocolate' looks
like as we go into the growing season.
Okay, so I am excited about all of them. Sure hope you will share more photos as they go through this next year Cynthia.

I think my interest is heading to the tiny and fuzzy this year. With some of the others thrown in here and there. Or anything that starts with sempervivum.

Chris, how is your weather today?

What about you twit on the weather front?

I've been leaning toward the smaller ones too - only because of lack of room.

Temp was 15 below on my way to work today. It was supposed to be warmer today. Imagine that - the weather man was wrong! But tomorrow will be in the 30s, I hope!

When does your spring weather usually arrive Chris?
We have had several days of wonderful sunshine, temps in the 40's daytime and around 28 at night. Tomorrow the rain returns.

It is hard to believe we are only a couple of weeks away from March. I am so ready for those wonderful soft warmth spring days. Sighhhhh.

S.'Fat Jack' seems to be my only semp problem at this time. This coming Oct will be two full years in my raised bed. Sure hope it survives, it didn't take the unusually wet fall thru winter we have had this time.

Lynn, i have tried semps before and killed most of them. last yr i built a rock garden and started trying again.

i am sending a pic of one of the rock garden beds that my son and i built
this is where my semps are going to live

Cythia, your semps will be very happy in that bed. Do you have a larger photo of it. Don't downsize it, as this site will do that automatically. If you downsize it before putting it here it will not enlarge when we click on it.
I so want to see it closer up so I can see all the little nooks and crannies, and what is growing in them.
You should have no trouble growing semps in that raised rock bed. Are those lava rocks?

ok , i noticed the light box app. these are uncut. the stones are called tuffa. the man i bought this place from was a rock gardener and collector. so i have many interesting rocks. I must also tell you how much i have enjoyed looking and reading all the forums. have quite learned a lot.

Ohhhhhhh Cynthia that is gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your pics! I will be starting a rock garden this year and it gave me some great ideas for landscaping...it's wonderful.

I'm a newby too (started last year) and I've killed a few semps in the past. I think being in this forum has greatly improved my odds for my future semps surviving. Such great information and knowledge from all the wonderful people here.

Wow Cynthia - beautiful! What fun to have so many cool rocks at your disposal. You and your son did a fantastic job. I like the different levels (heights) of the bed.

There are a great bunch of people here and I think we're all learning together. And all enabling each other, which is also very important.

Oops - sorry Lynn, didn't mean to ignore your question. I just got so excited looking at Cynthias picture that I forgot everything else!

Our snow is usually pretty much melted in March, then we get rain for another month, or two, or three. In May flowers start to bloom, in June the garden is doing great. However, it is not uncommon to have it snow in May. It doesn't hang around long though. And I do get pretty pictures of snow on the tulips!

So 'Fat Jack' isn't doing well, huh? I was thinking about getting that one but if it doesn't do good in your zone, I doubt that it will here in the wet and the cold.

Oh my, now I can see everything Cynthia. What a great rock garden the two of you have created. The tufa rock is a great rock to use for this type of garden as the succulents can grow in the tiny crevices. The new photos a wonderful for letting us see detail. Thank you so much Cynthia. And we all are so happy you have joined our hardy succulent family.

I feel what make our site such a great place is the contributions everyone adds to our learning process. Especially since we all live in different climates and soil types. And as Chris said in the above post, 'We are such enablers' when it comes to growing the fascinating plants.

Would love to have you add photos to the database when you have time. Close-ups of each plant or clump of plants is great for that purpose. We also like to include info for the photo, as that helps us see how that particular cultivate is doing in your conditions.
Here is how most of us are putting the info:
2/11/2011, PNW, zone 8 = date, area plant in grown in (Pacific Northwest), and zone #

It will take time for the photo to show up as it has to be approved before it will post in the entry for that cultivar. If you have a cultivar that doesn't have an entry in the database, just let me know what the name is and I will add it for you, then you can add the photo.

Cynthia, Oh my that is really nice. I love rock gardens and that one is a beauty. What a great job the two of you did.

These are all beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!

I got so far behind over here looking at the pictures and look what I've missed. I'd like to order some different ones to have something to trade, but I think that's going to be impossible with all the different varieties that have already been ordered. :rofl:

Just wonderful, all of them!!!

We'll still be willing to trade Tee!

We surely will Tee.

I am declaring that I have become an "official semp hoarder"...please join in and support my hoarding.
I have placed another order with North Hills and will take pics when they arrive.

OK, it's just fun to have plants from the gardens of other s&s fanatics. And I surely don't mind duplicates ... or triplicates ... or quadruplicates ... or ...

We may have to contact that "Hoarders" program regarding Linda.

Why would I do that Tee?

The reason many of us have been ordering from NHN right now is that she has a wonderful 2 for one sale going on until the end of the month. AND she sends surprise plants with your order. She is wonderful to do business with.