How to Rejuvinate Succulent Container Gardens
Mar 8th 2014
With time, even the best succulent container gardens start to look overgrown and bedraggled. Taking a few minutes to spruce up the plants can get your container looking fresh and new again.
You'll want to start by removing all of the old growth from the pot. Save anything that you want to re-use.
Cut the tips off succulents that grow on long, thick stems like tender sedum and graptosedum. Strip off the bottom leaves, leaving a few inches of bare stem. Echeveria, sempervivum and other
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Removing Dead Leaves from Hens and Chicks
Jan 26th 2014
As hens and chicks grow, their bottom leaves will shrivel up and die. Sometimes this is caused by overwatering, underwatering, not enough light or other stresses to the plant. Other times though, it is just the variety. Some varieties have lots of leaves die back during the winter while others lose hardly any.
It isn't necessary to remove the dead leaves, but it does a lot to help make the plants look pretty again.
Removing the dead leaves from hens and chicks is fairly easy. The time req
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Cleaning Up Sedum Plants
Jan 10th 2014
After a season of growth and a long dormant winter, Sedums can be pretty overgrown and ratty looking. To keep them looking their best it may be helpful to prune them back in the early spring.Different varieties of Sedums behave differently during the winter. Some are herbaceous and die back to the ground. Other are deciduous, losing their leaves in winter. Finally, some varieties are evergreen.If you don't give your deciduous and evergreen sedums a haircut they will develop bald spots around the
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The Ugly Face of Sempervivum Root Rot
Apr 13th 2013
Sempervivum are tough little succulent plants. They can take most punishment that their owners inflict on them. These little plants punch through neglect like it's nothing. Drought doesn't phase them and cold just makes them more colorful. Despite these super powers, they have a weakness. Their kryptonite is cold, wet feet.Hens and Chicks do not like to have their roots sitting in cold water. If the plant is dry and cold, it will be okay. If it's summer time and the plant is in a puddle then it
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Tips to Protect Sempervivum in Winter
Jan 6th 2013
Well, the cold weather had definitely arrived. Snow. Rain. Ice. All that stuff that we expect in January and the reason we are excited for Spring. While we are all bundled up, keeping warm inside, how are our succulents doing outside?There are two different scenarios for cold hardy succulents like sempervivum and sedum that are planted outside. They are either in the ground or in pots. Your care for them might change depending on where yours are.In the Ground Hens and Chicks are native to expose
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