Latin name: Sempervivum
Description: These delightful hardy evergreen succulents are grown for their dense mats of fleshy often highly coloured foliage and are more often associated with rock gardens. They will grow in any dryish situation including on your house roof as they need little food. They consist of a whorl of tightly packed succulent leaves and in summer, thin stalks rise above the foliage containing clusters of star-shaped flowers.
Hardiness: Mostly hardy if they don’t get to wet during the winter
Height: 4cm x
Position: Full sun
Soil: Poor, very well drained soils
Water: Drought tolerant once established into colonies
Usage: Rockeries, gravel gardens, well-drained stone troughs, containers and of course roofs
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Debbie - who has written 872 posts on My Climate Change Garden.
I am not an experienced gardener - more of an enthusiastic amateur who learns by trial and error and who is keen to "manage" the effects of shifting weather patterns on my garden.
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Fri, Mar 30, 2012
Gardening with Mediterranean Plants