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Hens and ChicksSempervivum arachnoideum
1. Cobweb Buttons
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One of the most distinctive types of Sempervivum. Aptly named, ‘Cobweb’ is covered with fine, white threads which crisscross between the leaves’ tips like a cobweb. Each rosette of pointy, blue-green leaves grows about 1 inch wide. Their color may vary from season to season. Unusual rose-pink flowers are produced on leafy stalks in midsummer.
6D-S4½" Wh 3"6"-8"3
 Sempervivum hybrid
2. Black
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Mounding succulent perennial makes an excellent groundcover when planted in mass groupings. Foliage is an attractive, bright yellow-green with tips edged in purple. Small flower spikes are frosty white. Thrives in rocky, well-drained soil. Evergreen.
6D-S4½" Wh  4"-6"4"-6"n/a
  
3. Carmen
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A beautiful Hens and Chicks, ‘Carmen’ forms large 5" wide rosettes, spreading to make a 12" patch in a few years. ‘Carmen's’ olive green foliage is enhanced with red tips. Maybe 2-3" tall at the most. Useful in rockeries, troughs, or mixed with other hardy and tender succulents.
6D-S4½" Wh  2"-3"8"-12"5-9
  
4. Emerald Giant
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‘Emerald Giant’ is a bright, lovely shade of green with purple leaf tips and grows into a very large rosette. It even turns magenta in cold winter weather.
6D-S4½" Wh  2"-3"7"-8"3-9
  
5. Jade Rose
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Jade Rose’s foliage is bright, medium green as it emerges, and then starts developing deep rose edges which eventually spread to the whole inside of leaf; the outside remains green.
6D-S4½" Wh   1"-3"12"-15"3-8
  
6. Red Beauty
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‘Red Beauty’ sports medium sized, fairly open rosettes of grey-green leaves with blood-red tips. This color may vary from season to season.
6D-S4½" Wh  3"-4"6"-8"3-8
  
7. Royal Ruby
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This selection produces medium-sized rosettes with narrow, pointy leaves of ruby red to smoky grey-red. Short spikes of pastel flowers in summer.
6D-S4½" Wh 4"-8"6"-12"5-9
  
8. Ruby Heart
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This selection forms rosettes of sharply pointed, silvery blue to blue-green leaves which are flushed rosy red at the base. This color varies by season, intensifying in cold temperatures. In midsummer, unique pinkish purple flowers are held aloft on short, leafy stalks.
6D-S4½" Wh 3"-4"6"-8"3-8
  
9. Silverine
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Forms rosettes of sharply pointed, silvery green leaves which are flushed with reddish-purple at the base. This color may vary from season to season. Unique deep pink flowers are held aloft on short, leafy stalks in midsummer.
6D-S4½" Wh 3"-4"6"-8"3-8
  
10. Spring Beauty
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‘Spring Beauty’ has medium-sized rosettes of grey-green, flushed with plum in the colder months. Short spikes of pastel flowers appear in summer. Easily increased by just removing the small baby rosettes and replanting in a new location at almost any time. After flowering, the mother rosette dies to leave room for the chicks: remove this by tugging gently at the base of the bloom stem.
6D-S4½" Wh 4"-8"6"-12"2-9
  
11. Tip Top
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This selection is a heavy producer and features bright apple green rosettes with dark purple tips.
6D-S4½" Wh 3"-6"6"-8"2-9
 Sempervivum tectorum
12. Sunset
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Emerald green fleshy rosettes with tips of red transform to gleaming sunset tones of orange in cool weather. Mature plants produce short thick flower spikes of star-shaped pink flowers. A carefree, sun and heat loving succulent.
6D-S4½" Wh 4"-8"6"-12"5-9
Mexican Hens and ChicksEcheveria basse
13. Caribbean Blue
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Silvery blue rosette with flushes of pink on its leaf edges when grown in bright sun. This variety has lots of long leaves and a thick coating of farina for sun protection that also gives it a soft, powdery appearance.
3D-N3" Bl Pot 4"-10"6"-9"9-11
 Echeveria diffractens
14. Shattering Echeveria
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Uniform flat, starry rosettes of rich, chocolatey-plum 12" across and lightly edged in creamy-pink are certainly sensational in the garden and even more so when they're blooming. 15-20" strongly erect stems, studded with also-chocolatey leaflets are crowned in Summer with startling, radiant orange to red, urn-shaped flowers. When the leaflets fall, they birth new plants!
3D-N3" Bl Pot 3"-6"8"-12"8-10
 Echeveria hybrid
15. Perle Von Nürnberg
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A beautiful rosette-forming succulent that has dusty rose-colored leaves. In summer, the coral pink flowers appear on 1’ long reddish stemmed inflorescences. Plant in sun, part shade, or place on a sunny windowsill indoors.
3D-N3" Bl Pot   6"-10"6"-10"9-11
  
16. Purple Perle Von Nürnberg
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Echeveria Purple Pearl has more intense purple coloring than Perle Von Nurnberg, but with silver edging that makes this variety a standout among the Echeverias.
3D-N3" Bl Pot 3"-5"6"-10"9-11
  
17. Red Prince
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A fast-growing Echeveria with large burgundy/red leaves that will fade to a pleasing matte color over time. Large, bell-shaped orange flowers will bloom late spring.
3D-N3" Bl Pot 6"-8"6"-10"9-11
 Echeveria mensa
18. Mensa (aka- Dark Desire; Neon Black Pride)
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It is highly prized for its large rosettes and fantastic color. The leaves are grey-green or blue-green with pink to lavender flushing when grown in bright sunlight.
3D-N3" Bl Pot 6"-8"6"-8"9-11
 Echeveria prolfiica
19. Prolifica
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Echeveria prolifica are small clustering succulents, with each rosette only growing to be about 2-4 inches across – yet due to the amount of pups and offshoots they create, they can easily grow in to fill in a pot 6” in diameter or greater! In the Spring and early summer months they also put out their beautiful yellow blooms on long leafy stems.
3D-N3" Bl Pot  6"-8"6"-8"9-11
 Echeveria pulvinata
20. Devotion
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Echeveria pulvinata 'Devotion' is a beautiful non-flowering Echeveria succulent with short stems and dense terminal rosette of fleshy green and warm burgundy red leaves covered with tiny hairs creating a velvety feel. It has a nice round shape and remains compact to a height of about 6". Leaves are up to 2" long and 3/4" wide. They become more red-colored in stronger light. This plant does not flower.
3D-N3" TC Pot  5"-6"6"-8"9-11
 Echeveria vertis (formerly elegans)
21. Mexican Snowball
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E. elegans is a tender succulent forming a clump of evergreen rosettes of spoon-shaped, whitish-green leaves and one-sided racemes of lantern-shaped pink flowers, tipped with yellow, in late winter and spring.
3D-N3" Bl Pot  4"4"n/a

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