@valleylynn

Sorry for the confusion. I meant 'Cosmic Comet' sedum in the Sunsparkler series.

I'll have to look that one up

It's Chris's new one that came out this year. it's been an ok grower but it has not thrived for me. Here is the listing at MCG for it. https://mountaincrestgardens.c...

Well @valleylynn I can tell you that I now have just one or two Semp's left and most have died in their pots. I am guessing that I will have to stick to those succulents that
do much better than Semp's which include Crassula, Adeniums, Euphorbias and Sedums.

You gave it a good try William.

Sorry to hear that William. At least you can still indulge in the kind of succulents that survive your zone. I am a small semp collector and still hold out for a couple of tender succulents to survive on my covered balcony deck. I've managed to save an Echeveria agavoides and a Graptopetalum which I push against the deck wall and cover them with shade cloth during the winter months.

my semps have been pretty stable but it doesn't rain as much here. I don't think any webby ones lived. succulents did pretty well too. I watered not more than once every 10 days. The soil mix from Lynn's recipe worked well

Hurray. So glad the soil recipe is working for you Alice. It can be a tricky thing to find a mix that works for our semps. So many challenges with weather conditions.

Heres something I haven't seen before but consider it as lucky:

A few offsets that appeared along the flower stalk...But glad to collect the offsets before losing the mother rosette!

It's RAINING IN OREGON!!! YEHAW!!! After no rain for several months and record temperatures, this feels good.

We had another taping session of blogs by the crew from Mountain Crest Gardens last weekend that will be available soon. The first group that was shot in the spring is being edited by Matts' sister and she will be working on these as well. These will feature some recent developments in my patch and talk about the creation of the giant strains and what new plants are coming down the pipes that should be available soon. We've never talked about semps this time of year but I think learning about cultivars that have year round color is something we should aspire. After this AWFUL summer, things that looked good DESPITE this are exciting.

Kevin

Wooh!

I agree Kevin, this rain is glorious. I am so thankful, I know the plants are also thankful.
I also agree that having new cultivars that have year round color retention is a very good things.

Im glad you are finally getting rain.
Here in Pennsylvania, we are drying out a bit but the mosquitos are wicked.

I took this photo a while ago at a local garden center. (With everything going on it was forgotten.) I thought it looked great though I'm not sure how well the non succulent plants would grow in the long term.

some of those non succulents survive texas droughts, looks like russian sage, and a couple of lawn weeds whose names have escaped me. (one mans weed is another mans rare plant)

Sharen,

Helen Payne just threw extra bits of sedums and semps on the roof of a garden shed and it was just beautiful. Of course S. tectorum grows on roofs allover Europe as a charm against lightning.

Kevin

I've seen orostachys growing on rock stacked walls in Inner Mongolia before..

Here is a mixed box of semps that are starting to open up and color up for the fall.

I find the one in the middle that looks like its made of butter quite interesting.

Here are two pictures of the only Semp's that I have left!

I think that the first picture is S. globiferum ssp. hirtum 'Mecsek Mtns. Type A'

And the second picture is two examples of S. globiferum 'Emerald Spring'

I am so sorry they are not happy in your climate.
But there are so many things you can grow well where you are, that I can not grow here.