I only had the "semp problem" very mildly until I got on here with you all!!!
A nearby yard has some really nice specimens, I saw the little rosettes, and I said "pretty!"...but then I saw the blooms and I said "man, that looks like succulent blooms what are those??" These were really big and fat and a slight scent!
Then I looked at a nursery and bought my first little webby one, (didn't keep a label, because it was just going to be one or two)
Its not like I'm trying to 'keep up', its that they're so many cute ones!! And the little bit of resistance I may have goes out the window when I have you all saying - "ah go ahead get 'em!!"
And then I go onto SMG or Young's and they have other totally cute ones!
(while taking photos yesterday, I suddenly thought "ooh, these are looking so healthy (considering its winter) just wait till spring how many babies!!!!!" then I'm trying to figure out if there's any way to tell which ones and how many they'll produce and on and on
There are several new tenants in my building and now I'm hogging all the garden space - ooops! I hope none of them are into gardening! (I have to get more mini green walls made as soon as spring is here so I can return one of the beds)
I didn't pull any leaves yet, because they're only dry, they're not mushy at all, its the oddest thing. The one looks fully dead, behind the main clump, which is how this one looked just a few weeks ago, I thought I'd lost both of them, but then this one is changing color, I'm wondering if the hen just changes into an odd brown color which looks dead?? (just so you don't think I'm crazy, I have pulled off many of the soggy dead leaves from other plants) Its a very curious and happy thing!
Sherri, come spring I want to see your garden!! I can't imagine so many semps in pots, sounds really beautiful! I'll pay my price of entry (a couple of babies of variety you don't have)
Cheers all, it has been so much fun getting to know you all and building my semp knowledge and actually keeping the labels, and recognizing which country hybridizers are from (since so many of the semps that I "absolutely must have or I'll just die!" are from Europe or are a species from Turkey or Aremenia (like that's going to happen)
Chris, I only need .50 acorn to get my final (for now) badge...a cat lover, can't have a dog lover without cat lover huh?!
Happy holidays all