Hello,
I just took some fotos of my collection.
As we are living in the fourth floor with a larger balcony where sempervivum have to share the space with lots of other plants, I planted them in shallow plates of different sizes. This allows me to re-arrange or re-position them if sun is to intense or we are expecting longer rain.
Few of my sempervivum are named so I assigned numbers to them for identification.
This is my first plate everything started with last year...
Then I came up with the "ingenious" idea to reuse my old working chair we had accidently left outside the whole winter. Picture number one is taken in May, number two just yesterday after slight rearrangement and replacement of the type in the background by a jovibarba (as all 24 rosettes decided to bloom at the same time). The variety in the lower left is my current favourite and took part in many crosses I made this year...
Here are some more of my plates featuring some beautiful NOIDs...
Then there are these ones I bought in Italy after having searched a number of nurseries for sempervivum (it seems they're not as commen as garden plants in Italy as in Germany)...
and finally my first named varieties! According to the small nursery where I bought them there should be in the first plate: Plastic, Bronco (bought as Irazu), Donarrose, Noir, Reinhard, Heighham Red (labelled as Heighmann's Red) and Sapa. In the second there are Zannalee and Pacific Red Tide among three other non-identified varieties...
The sempervivum offspring have already conquered the other pots and are hiding everywhere...
together with some former single rosettes now about to form small colonies to become official (numbered) members of the collection.
So far about my collection, hope you like the fotos.
Regards,
Michael
