'Always Living'
After a lot of 'hit and miss' with my Google-fu, I finally determined the nature of the strange plant living in one of the many overgrown flowerbeds.
It's a 'Sempervivum', which means "always living" for you Latin scholars. Also known as 'hen and chicks' because of the way the new plants grow around the 'mother' plant and share the same root system until they become independent.
I like them and want to keep them, but I'm not sure what I'll do with them when the time comes (soon) to replant these beds. They're covering about 3 or 4 square feet now, so hopefully enough will survive when I perform the transplant. (Nurse? Gloves, please.) They'll get their own little corner somewhere, I'm sure.
It's a 'Sempervivum', which means "always living" for you Latin scholars. Also known as 'hen and chicks' because of the way the new plants grow around the 'mother' plant and share the same root system until they become independent.
I like them and want to keep them, but I'm not sure what I'll do with them when the time comes (soon) to replant these beds. They're covering about 3 or 4 square feet now, so hopefully enough will survive when I perform the transplant. (Nurse? Gloves, please.) They'll get their own little corner somewhere, I'm sure.
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