Chad, you have been so busy. This forum and these really fun plants can really be motivating.

Looks so good, thanks for sharing with us. The deck will be so nice. Your plants are in perfect health.

That looks very nice and gives me some ideas for my hardies.

As the cold weather seems like it has moved out, I feel like I can finally get out and start working it my yard. I had to go out of town tonight and thought I'd buy a couple of semps at Lowe's to add to my beds. If all of mine grew to be this big, I don't know what I'd do. I'll try to add some pics of my beds and planters of my collection. I notice new ones that I've added in the past year are starting to have quite a few offsets for the first time. It's looking like this is going to be a good spring/summer for my semps!

Chad how fun. New semps. They do look really large. And just look at all the offsets coming on the semp to the left in your photo. Wow.

Awesome Semp collection!!
Have you checked out the baker racks? They sell them at Home Depot and lowes and you would be surprised how affordable they can be especially when they are on sale! That's what Inuse for my potted plants and the newer ones often times will get thrown in a lower shelf while they harden off. Deck railings also work well for me...
Keep us updated with pics I love to see them! Also is there anyway I can see who is selling semps? And what they have? I came across Lynn's store but when I emailed her she informed me she is currently covered in snow! I love Lynn's plants! gotta get me some of those!

Snow is gone now, but it has not stopped raining. Maybe today will be a day to work outdoors.
I woke up to 52° outside this morning.
Time to go out and see how things are doing.

Lynn, I too would be interested in making some purchases once it warms up and you get situated For Semps being cold hardy, i'm a little surprised how hard they are to find here in Illinois. :-/

- Melissa

Melissa and Ryan. I will try to do a list up tomorrow of what I will have a available. Some of the colonies are looking really good and could be shipped in the next couple of weeks.

Lynn, I'd be interested in seeing your list, too.

Lynn, I would also be interested in the list...thx!

LoL wow Lynn.. Your plants are so popular! Can't wait thanks!

Here you go. So far I have not completed an inventory of the ones that are available right now.
Tomorrow is suppose to be sunny and dry, so I will get out there and start a list. The ones that are available will have 'For Sale' under the status column.
https://garden.org/lists/view/...

I finally got around to taking some pictures of my semps that are growing around my yard. It was wet, cold and there was a light mist so I didn't hang around the yard to long. I tried to load these in their normal high quality original photo but the internet isn't cooperating and I had to re-save them and it changed the image quality just a bit. I hope everyone enjoys looking at them as much as I enjoyed getting out there and taking them.

I have to give a big shout-out to this community. They have allowed me to ask a million questions through private messages and they've been willing to let me purchase some of their semps so I could expand my collection. It is an amazing group and I truly enjoy reading everyones posts. I don't get to post as much as I like to but I hope to get better about that. Anyways, feel free to look at the pictures I posted and sorry there are so many, I tend to get a bit carried away when I have a camera in hand, haha!

This is the washbin I used this past year and planted a bunch that I received from Greg in it. It looks really good and I've only had a couple of casualties. Overall, they're looking pretty good. As spring gets here, I'm going to move it around my house to the back yard. That way they'll be able to get that morning sun with a shady evening that I hope keeps them thriving.


The next few are a few closeups of some of the ones from the washbin.

I see some growth in this one!

In the bottom left corner of this pic, I noticed one growing up out of the rocks.

Wow! Another close-up from the wash-bin.....


Now as we move around to my backyard, this is just a large flowerpot that sits on my back deck. I just had to put the last bit of my semps in here that I didn't have another spot for. Hopefully, they'll play nice together....

This is one I have sitting on the deck railing so it can get plenty of sun.

A whole lot of growth on a little bitty semp! I'm really hoping this one makes it......


This is the other washbin in my backyard around the corner from my deck. The semps in this washbin appear to have thrived I think because of the limited evening sun they receive due to the corner of my house blocking the harsh evening sun and 100 temps we tend to get in the summer.

The next few photos are some close-ups of some of the semps in the 2nd washbin.

This one is ONE of my faves! Then again, I really like everyone of them, haha!

I see a chick peeking out!




Niphetos is showing growth all around!


The old wheelbarrow I cleaned up and used. It's got a little bit of everything in it.

The next two are views of the bed I have along the side of my house. As my semps multiply I plan on filling in the other half of the bed.


The rest are close-ups of the semps in the bed pictured above.

Planthoarder said:Awesome Semp collection!!
Have you checked out the baker racks? They sell them at Home Depot and lowes and you would be surprised how affordable they can be especially when they are on sale! That's what Inuse for my potted plants and the newer ones often times will get thrown in a lower shelf while they harden off. Deck railings also work well for me...
Keep us updated with pics I love to see them! Also is there anyway I can see who is selling semps? And what they have? I came across Lynn's store but when I emailed her she informed me she is currently covered in snow! I love Lynn's plants! gotta get me some of those!

I finally got some updated pics posted tonight. I haven't really looked at bakers racks or any shelving to put mine on. I've been trying to make use of what I have around my yard. I go in Lowe's and I could easily spend way to much money, haha!

I see babies on some of them.
How exciting. I think your Oklahoma weather puts you ahead of us with spring weather. Love them all Chad, they look so happy and healthy.

valleylynn said:I see babies on some of them.
How exciting. I think your Oklahoma weather puts you ahead of us with spring weather. Love them all Chad, they look so happy and healthy.

Thanks! I have been outside working in the yard today and I will say it's quite a bit warmer than it was yesterday. I'm trying to get some hostas planted and a few other things transferred.

For those of you that asked about buying semps, here is a link in the Classified Ads Forum.
I got the inventory done today.
The thread "2017 Sempervivum Sale" in Classifieds and Group Buys forum

I thought I would post a picture of the different colors that are noticeable between the semps in the washbin on my front porch. I planted them just before winter got here and the colors are really coming out now that spring is finally just around the corner. I wished I would've payed closer attention and taken the pic from the same angle.

Wow! That really is a big change. And just wait until all those rosettes start growing and showing there different forms.