Nothing threatening or evil; I didn't think it was going to look any better so had to put it out of its misery...

Poor thing. But it is in a better place I'm sure.

"Retired?" I'm retired! Holy cow... am I dead?
Bev off'ed a poor, helpless semp. I'm SO disillusioned.

Seriously, though... isn't that just cresting? Or is that different?
I've never been a fan of those cresters.

Yes Tim, it was cresting. "You never think its' going to be special until it happens in your own back yard." I thought it was neat because it was the first time seeing it happening to my own little Noid semp in the semp bed..

valleylynn said:My NOIDS have surprised me, with beautiful water markings, red year round, and much more. Nothing wrong with our NOIDS.

NEILMUIR1 said: Dear Lynn, the first Semps. for my rice water stones. I have no idea as for their names as they were a job lot selection from a nursery! Nice though!
Neil.

valleylynn said: I don't have a name for this one, but it definitely is one of my all time favorites. It pretty much stays this color year round. For some reason the form and the way the leaves are edged in the dark reddish brown gives me joy just looking at it. And this year it has become huge, 7 inches across. I always had her in pots until I lost all but two of this plant and put them in a raised bed last year. I had no idea it would get that size, the largest it ever got in a pot was 3 inches.

goldfinch4 said:...People always seem so amazed that there are so many different kinds of semps. I think most people are under the impression that there may be one or two, but when they see so many, it is amazing. A lady stopped by last summer and I gave her about a dozen different semps. She went home and dug up her "common green one" and gave it away because she had all these beauties now.

gg5 said:… I just let the passion for the plants do their thing and take some pics while enjoying looking at what I have

gg5 said:The semps were brilliant today! Especially after I watered them!
This NOID arach semp has some amazing coloration, a true terracotta!!

It's been raining for a few days here. I have no garden to plant Noids to receive the Oregon rain, but here are photo of Noids dotted with California rain.

What fun I had catching up on this thread.

Tim have you recovered from the shock of know what can happen when some one retires you?

springcolor said:When I take cuttings from people's gardens and it's a Noid, I just name it after the person I got it from.
I have Hydrangea 'Mrs. Johnston' and 'J. VanRossen', Hosta 'Susanlee's grandmother', Sedum 'Susanlee'. Just started doing that. Kind of fun when they come to visit.

Last winter for Julia:

springcolor said:The semps are starting to color!!!

Noid

A couple of years back from Laszlos in Hungary:

laszloszakszon said:Lynn, unknown type(s):

Eviesmummy said: I rescued a noid from the reduced section of the diy shop yesterday. It was meant to be a pot of 'alpine selectons' but the semp was all that survived, well actually thrived It's almost filling the pot. They are itty bitty rosettes, the biggest look less than an inch across, and they are just showing signs of growing webs

dirtdorphins said: I do actually have quite a few very prized NOIDs, this one and that one and this other one over here and oh yeah we can't forget that one over there or this one
I really didn't know that their names even mattered --or what NOID stood for--or that there were so gosh darn many different cool ones to dream of torturing, until I found ATP and started lurking...

dirtdorphins said: ...here's a sunshine pic of the screaming red noid I love

gg5 said:Ok semp lovers - I have been struggling with what to call myself, since I really am not a "collector". I'm not that serious, and I love the NOIDs as much as the named types...then today I came up with it...Sempervivum 'Fancier'
I love that name for what I'm doing with semps! So now I feel like I can continue with the craziness of collecting semps without the clinical/science side of it...I know some people love that part too, and I may at some point move in that direction but for now, I'm just a Semp Fancier!

CDsSister said: If I am an Sempervivum 'Fancier' I need a Sempervivum FINANCIER.

A financier... that's good... and darned appropriate. I am so jealous that I didn't think of that one myself.

Photos of Noid I had that had an explosion of offsets. A first for me; I know others have had this sort of thing happen in their collection but this one happened in MY backyard.

webesemps said:
March 16, 2014


Count'em...25 (?) new Noid offsets!

StaticAsh said:Wow Bev, 25?! That is crazy! What's its name?

valleylynn said:That is very cool Bev. Which one is it?

webesemps said: A very prolific Noid Now, if I can just keep all 25 alive...

April 7th ~30 chicks


April 30th ~35 chicks


June 2nd All still alive and together until they were separated...

You're all too late. It was the Sempervivum Fanciers Association that Bill Nixon started, which rose out of the old round robin letters. So "fancier" is 40 years old!

Kevin