They are alpine succulents, so they can take the cold but preferably not too much rain, but my growing area is different. Here it is at its happiest during our mild winters, and suffers big time when we go back to our hot and dry warm days and into summer.
I would imagine someone uprooted it from their own collection and put it in that little container to be given away during your club meeting. It does make roots, but they are rather shallow, so it does not really need big containers. But they will really enjoy better growing outdoors as already mentioned.
They are fun to grow, if my growing conditions are really ideal for it, I would plant more of it.
