Any obsessive collector eventually comes to a point where it's difficult to discover a new piece to add to the collection. With regards to standard variety nurseries, this is the way it's gone for me and sempervivum types. I have about 200 hand picked semp cultivars and anything I really want that I don't have is extremely difficult to obtain, and not the sort of thing I'd just bumble into... or at least I thought! Yesterday while perusing Portland nurseries perrenial section (as I often do) I stumbled into a cultivar I'd never heard of called 'Spirit of 76'. What's most interesting about this variety is that we have it listed in our database as a plant hybridized by Skrocki, but it appears to be a grandiflorum type which is odd because he really didn't do much with that sort that I know of. Could be a montanum though I suppose. Not many pictures of this one in our database so if anyone knows something about the variety I'd love to hear it. The label says it gets a red/orange blush in the summer, though it's predominantly green at the moment.
Seems like a cool plant, first one I've bought from a non-specialty nursery in a long time.
Hen and Chicks (Sempervivum 'Spirit of 76')
Nice velvet and a touch of color...
I found it charming so it had to come home with me.
Any thoughts on this one?
-Sol
