Seeds, Sedum and Semps.

I've been busy, even while the weather was taking a break and giving us some rain. I received my order of 36 named varieties of Sempervivum (hens and chicks), 30 varieties of lost label varieties, and a few new (to me) Sedum varieties for my collection. Here's a fun idea for something that usually ends up in the landfill - pizza pan satelite dishes that no longer fill the requirements. They're shallow metal which can be pierced by bashing a nail into it a few times for drainage holes, and voila! - a perfect dish garden for succulents of every description. All this one needs is some small shale to provide drainage around the crown of the Sempervivum.


I've got this one somewhat precariously balanced on a tree stump for that rustic look...

and here are the 36 varieties of Sempervivum newly potted and happy in their new home. This is one mail order company that I can wholeheartedly recommend - Cavendish Perennials in Ontario - here's the website address http://www3.sympatico.ca/semps/catalogue.html

(and yes, that is old carpet reincarnated as groundcover!)

This is the other order received in the mail recently - lots of different tender succulent seeds...I'm waiting on tenterhooks for them to germinate!