That is just beautiful Kate. It is so good to see you. Hope all is well and your business is flourishing.

Thanks for checking in, Kate...and sharing your wonderful growing grounds with us.

Oh Kate, That's fantastic!

Beautiful Kate!

Awesome, Kate... looking at that picture I wondered if you had a business of some sort. I wonder what those beds look like close up. Pretty sweet, I'd wager.

Thanks for all the kind words. Yes, most definitely need to get more current photos. I never have the bench space to pot them up so I just dig for people when they decide which ones they want. Bench space is reserved for the physically larger plants; I have over 800 varieties of things in the ground on a very tightly planted half acre and spend weeks in April through June digging and potting for the benches. For loads more photos: www.labouroflovelandscaping.com

Sweet website, Kate!
I am trying to start a large colony of 'Tederheid' as well as a few others.



This is 'Irazu' in one of the large rock pots. I do need to clean this up a bit.

Terri next year your 'Tederheid' will be a nice large colony, all filled in. It is a very good grower.
And your 'Irazu' is wonderful. I love that little semp.

Here's a bit of sequence for an area with a couple of steps where the arachs have grown in to look like cascading water.

Wow! Very impressive Kate!

Wonderful, just wonderful Kate. Thanks so much for sharing that with us.

Gadzooks... they look like glaciers!
Did you sprinkle lots of little starts around and let them fill in or is this a few massively prolific plants?

That's beautiful Kate!

tcstoehr said:Gadzooks... they look like glaciers!
Did you sprinkle lots of little starts around and let them fill in or is this a few massively prolific plants?

I planted a few and waited. Here's another sequence. There was a black locust tree that became hazardous and was removed (except for the trunk that became a table). So, originally these plants had a lot of high shade and they spread nicely. The tree was removed a year ago - I wish I'd done it 20 years ago. A whole other story, but now I don't have to cover the beds to keep tree debris out.


















And one where they have begun to colonize the crevices in the tree bark:

Really pretty Kate!

Took this one today.

I really liked those ones that seems to be marching out of the tree crevice I do wish our temps are that amiable year round for semp colonies.

The last photo is wonderful! A semp carpet!

As you can see, I had to put a stepping stone in to be able to get to the table part of the remaining tree bits so as not to step on the madly growing semps.

I will try to take a photo of my colony tonight. What is special about my colony is that it has been in my family for at least 5 generations now- maybe even longer. No idea what variety they are - will post a photo later and perhaps someone will tell me.