I guess it would make sense to read the articles kindly provided by the people here before asking questions.
Will do so now.
My bed is under a spreading crabapple tree. They get some direct sun in morning then dappled in the afternoon. Dratted cats keep walking across them as I find some little ones upside down and I certainly didn't plant them that way.
And they are my neighbor's cats, not mine.
We did our first clean up at the botanical gardens rock gardens. Things looking really nice. Lots of blooming rock garden plants. We had a lot of winter kill from all the new plants that went in hastily last fall. We knew some were borderline but wanted to get the new troughs planted ASAP. We have new troughs to go in in a few weeks and those plants will have all summer to settle in and we can afford to be more careful in our choices.
Like I have anything to do with choices. I too am a newbie so I just 'do as I am told'. I can safely pull weeds, brush off dead leaves with the best of them. When the new troughs go in and things are really growing well I will take more pics. I realize that these are not all Sempervivum and probably no Jovibarba (I don't think they thrive here) but there are lots of hens and chicks.
