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alpines type wot to do please
Alan4711
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Hi all from sunny Norfolk,we have planted an Alpine sort of thing and this plant has shot a 6 inch stork out with 4 or 5 flower heads on it ,does anyone know wot i do with it , its sticking about 3 inches in the air ,do i cut it and plant it or leave it, being a succulent its very fleshy and i dont want to hurt it,Help if poss please,
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I just left mine Alan, aren't they just flowers?
I think I read on here that the rosette it is stuck to will die afterwards - hopefully someone will correct me if I'm mistaken
It's the flower Alan. It'll die off like any other flower and the base just dies back as well. I've just chucked one that's finished
They have so many offshooots that you can just take those off and plant them elsewhere or let them spread around the area they're in.
They're strange looking little flowers aren't they?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
hi Viv ,any chance of its name so i can look it up as well please ,iv got loads of plant books but no succulents at all,im blaming Kate it was her idea in the first place, but they are really nice looking plants when done right, shes started 2 more big flat tray pots of em its her latest garden thing, cheers Victoria
There re so many sempervivums and they all look much the same to me. A bit of red here, a touch of white there. But 100s of different names for all that
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi all i didnt know you all had answered me ,thanks for all the info,so i can take it off and replant it in her new one shes doing ,it all sounds really good Buy one get a thousand free Yes i can do that ,the new ones being done look really deserty and yt colourfull ,many thanks all Sempervivium it is
I wouldn't have a clue Alan, sorry.
I bought mine when I did a course at Harlow Carr last summer and they gave me some plant vouchers. They had names but I'm afraid I was careless and misplaced them...
They are strangely addictive though
Hi Alan - just to add that here in East Anglia it was traditional to grow a clump of sempervivums (known as Houseleeks) on the pantiled roofs of old cottages in the belief that they prevented lightening strikes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sempervivum
I used to know several very old cottages with houseleeks on the roof - particularly what we in East Anglia call a Catslide roof which was usually part of an added-on kitchen like this one
Haven't seen houseleeks on a roof for several years
But I've found a pic online
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I didn't know it was lightning strikes. I thought it was about drunken husbands
http://www.baytoday.ca/content/columns/details.asp?c=9373
In the sticks near Peterborough
My dad liked the houseleek-on-roof story, Dove, and planted one on the stone slate roof of his porch. Obviously it works - his house was never struck by lightning...
TYPICAL TOO LATE with that info. About 4/5 weeks ago the door bell went about 3.30 in the morning, I got up to check and nobody about but then i noticed the clocks all flashing no probs, a short power cut probebly, next day Saturday i sat down to watch the Grand Prix and NO TV ,the TV man gets down of the roof youv been hit by,, youv guessed it, At 3.30 the lightning blew the ariel transmitter booster thing to kingdom come,£50 and it was only 2 weeks old fitted by the same chap, ,but the TV engineer chappy did say" this is rare " HE DIDNT SAY WHERES YOUR SEMPERVIVIAM DID HE NO, call himself a TV engineer ,he knows nothing ,,,Got to go Kates just walked in with a bag of fresh wet seaweed bless her cotton socks,Comfry and seaweed feed coming up, oh i can smell it now SO thankyou all for that TOO Late info PS when a asked Kate to go up on the roof and start planting the Sempys she said Kindly go away ,or somthing similar anyway.