My Other Passion - Orchid Board

BikerDoc5968 · #1 09-20-2009, 11:28 AM

I enjoy succulents as well as my chids. The growth habits and graceful flower spikes are so artistically pleasing to my eye, I just stand and watch them for hours.... well, maybe not hours!

johnblagg · #2 09-20-2009, 11:41 AM

Wow nice photos

I love the "hen and chicks" myself

BikerDoc5968 · #3 09-20-2009, 12:01 PM

Though many look at these and call them "Hens & Chicks", they are NOT winter-hardy. I leave them outside til the nighttime temps fall to 45F and then into the GH for the winter.

RosieC · #4 09-20-2009, 12:44 PM

My Mum always had some of those... the first one that is... is that the one you call Hens & Chicks, I think I've heard that name before.

Anyway I never thought much of them. They were just one of those plants which was arround when I was a kid, usually amoungst lots of other plants on the floor of her front porch (a glass enclosed area where she has a lot of plants).

But your pics make them look fantastic. I may have to get a division from hers sometime.

cb977 · #5 09-20-2009, 12:51 PM

Great plants, Doc!

I also have a small collection of succulents and love them almost as much as my orchids

Thanks for sharing

BikerDoc5968 · #6 09-20-2009, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by RosieC

My Mum always had some of those... the first one that is... is that the one you call Hens & Chicks, I think I've heard that name before.

Anyway I never thought much of them. They were just one of those plants which was arround when I was a kid, usually amoungst lots of other plants on the floor of her front porch (a glass enclosed area where she has a lot of plants).

But your pics make them look fantastic. I may have to get a division from hers sometime.

Just to be clear, what most call Hens & Chicks belong to the genus Sempervivum and are usually winter hardy. There are several species in this genus but the above plants are found growing naturally in Mexico and other Central American countries.

johnblagg · #7 09-20-2009, 05:31 PM

ahhh cool ....Thanks I just assumed they were the ones I called hen and chicks.

They look so much alike.... sorry

RosieC · #8 09-20-2009, 05:50 PM

Ok, a different one, but I've just looked up Echeveria purpusorum and it's another of the ones my Mum used to have from the look of it, such great flowers, I've never looked closely at them before.