Adventures with Chicks and Rollers.
A dear friend had shared some of her Hens and Chicks with me and my Momma a week or so ago. I've never had any, and I knew that Momma would like some. My husband and I chose to put ours out on the bank behind our house that definitely needs more than a few things for ground cover. My Momma put hers into a decorative wheelbarrow to let fill up.
I don't have any pictures of them on the bank yet, they seem to be pouting a little after having been moved from the tight confines of the flowerpot. Hubs and I will probably need to go back to the bank and make a 'dip' for the roots. No biggie.
My neighbor friend shared a few Rollers with me the other day when I stopped by her house to take a few daylily cultivars that she did not have. I must have looked like a kid walking away from the blackberry bush with them, as I just had a handful of them walking around like it was completely normal.
Before taking many daylilies (to the best of my knowledge, before that day she only had ditchlilies) to the lady I got the Hens and Chicks from- I split the handful of Rollers I had in two to be able to share with her as she said she had none that were as small as these.
I know nothing about which Cultivar of both the Chicks and the Rollers. But I do foresee another small obsession building.
I wanted to be able to start a planter with only One of the Rollers- I've never seen them multiply and I am excited to be able to. As for the other 10 or so; I am thinking about putting half of them in a Cinder Block, and then the other half into a different container for Momma.
For the planter to be able to
stalk, I mean
*watch*, I used a re-purposed solar lantern that hangs on the side of our porch. I have many pictures of it, in many seasons- but these are my favorites.
The cone hanging from the bottom is the part that I used, as it no longer lights up at night. It used to change colors between the primaries and the blends between.
It was very pretty.
It is going to be prettier, now.
Lucky me, there was already drainage holes in place to keep the cone from standing in water when it was a lamp.
I should have probably cleaned them off before snapping a picture, but I am scatter-brained. When it rains very hard, the decorations in my little annual raised bed gets spattered with bits of mud and then it dries. 
Street Urchin - I think this might be my favorite of the reds that I own. This is the last bloom of the year for it. It was the first year that we had it bloom in our garden, planted last fall. The first bloom was on June 28th.
