Sempervivum Collection
The perfect way to start collecting these amazing, colourful succulent plants.
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Just £19.99
Key Features
Perfect In Pots
Plant In Sunshine
Winter Hardy
Easy To Grow
Wildlife Friendly
Width: 50cm
Height: 15cm
Height: 15cm
- The iconic houseleek is back, and you can be part of the succulent-plant revolution.
- Perfect for making green walls and green roofs.
- A plant that can help our gardens adapt to climate change.
- Ideal for busy home owners - easy to grow, drought tolerant and require minimal maintenance.
- Supplied as 12 plug plants, 2 each of 6 named varieties ready to grow on before planting out.
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Description
Sempervivums, the iconic houseleek, are working their magic and are bang on trend as a must-have plant!
Making a welcome return to our homes, gardeners are falling in love again with the houseleek and discovering that they are a real multipurpose plant, and ideal in pots on the patio or balcony.
Be part of this succulent revolution and buy yours now - let yourself be won over by these fascinating, low-maintenance perennials. Available in a range of colours and sizes, colours deepen in winter as the weather becomes colder.
Sempervivums form rosettes of colourful, evergreen, succulent leaves and are low growing, making them extremely popular as a living carpet of green and an ideal candidate for green roofs and living walls as they're recommended as an ideal plant to help adapt our gardens to climate change.
Also known as hen and chicks, sempervivums are drought tolerant and will grow in the narrowest of cracks - hence their common name, as they were once used to plug gaps in leaking roofs.
This resurgence in popularity has been driven in part by their undemanding nature - they're very much a 'plant-it-and-leave-it' type of plant - easy to grow and a doddle to maintain, fully winter hardy and produce multiple new plants every year.
As a bonus during the summer, the mature rosettes throw out spikes topped with star shaped flowers which insects love, plus they produce offsets, or new plants, every season that are simple to separate and grow as new specimens.
Really easy to grow and a favourite with kids, Sempervivums require a well-drained soil in full sun, tolerating drought when established.
Supplied as 12 plug plants, 2 each of 6 named varieties ready to grow on before planting out.
Sempervivum arachnoideum: the cobweb houseleek, covered in white cobwebs and 1-3cm (0.5 -1in) rosettes. Pink flowers
Sempervivum calcareum: Classic green with purple leaf tips, with large rosettes up to 13cm (5in). White flowers.
Sempervivum Joribara allionii: Bright green with small rosettes, 5cm (2in). Yellow flowers.
Sempervivum Ruby Heart: Long burgundy leaves with emerald- green tips in large rosettes to 18cm (7in). Rose-pink flowers.
Sempervivum Standard Green: Bright green leaves and pink flowers. Medium-sized rosettes to 8cm (3in)
Sempervivum Rubin (AGM): Burgundy-red leaves with pink flowers. Rosettes 10cm (4in) wide.
Please note that varieties may change throughout the year, depending on availability.
Top Tips
Plant individual varieties in a clay pot in gritty soil, top with small gravel and display each one on a sunny outside windowsill.
Care Information
- Plant in full sun in well-drained soil.
- Sempervivum plants prefer well-drained soil with sand or grit added.
- Grow them in trays or pots, in the ground, or on wood or in rock piles. Once established, the plant’s need no further care.
- Once a rosette flowers, it dies back so simply pull out the dead rosette and fill the hole with gritty soil. The plant will quickly fill in any empty spots with offsets.
Delivery Information
Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.
Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.
We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.
Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.
Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.
Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.
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