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Live Forever
Hi, I have been lurking for a while. Lots of good info here. My question
is, "What is the common name of a plant that is "older than dirt". I always knew it as LiveForever. It is a very easy to grow plant that is light green and has pale pink flowers in the fall I think. It is almost like a succulent. You can break off a piece and stick it in the dirt and it will grow. I have been unable to find anything about it on gardening web sites. It must be know as something else. Can anyone help me? TIA KathyA2 |
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Live Forever
KathyA2 wrote:
Hi, I have been lurking for a while. Lots of good info here. My question is, "What is the common name of a plant that is "older than dirt". I always knew it as LiveForever. It is a very easy to grow plant that is light green and has pale pink flowers in the fall I think. It is almost like a succulent. You can break off a piece and stick it in the dirt and it will grow. I have been unable to find anything about it on gardening web sites. It must be know as something else. Can anyone help me? TIA KathyA2 Hens-and-chicks (Sempervivum) Try googling it. |
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Live Forever
I have that (Hen and Chicks), in addition to the one I am thinking of. This
Live Forever grows tall, about 12 to 16 inches tall. Can I attach a picture? KathyA2 "Alexander Pensky" wrote in message ... KathyA2 wrote: Hi, I have been lurking for a while. Lots of good info here. My question is, "What is the common name of a plant that is "older than dirt". I always knew it as LiveForever. It is a very easy to grow plant that is light green and has pale pink flowers in the fall I think. It is almost like a succulent. You can break off a piece and stick it in the dirt and it will grow. I have been unable to find anything about it on gardening web sites. It must be know as something else. Can anyone help me? TIA KathyA2 Hens-and-chicks (Sempervivum) Try googling it. |
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Live Forever
Sedum?
mebbe Autumn Joy? -- Barry "KathyA2" wrote in message news I have that (Hen and Chicks), in addition to the one I am thinking of. This Live Forever grows tall, about 12 to 16 inches tall. Can I attach a picture? KathyA2 "Alexander Pensky" wrote in message ... KathyA2 wrote: Hi, I have been lurking for a while. Lots of good info here. My question is, "What is the common name of a plant that is "older than dirt". I always knew it as LiveForever. It is a very easy to grow plant that is light green and has pale pink flowers in the fall I think. It is almost like a succulent. You can break off a piece and stick it in the dirt and it will grow. I have been unable to find anything about it on gardening web sites. It must be know as something else. Can anyone help me? TIA KathyA2 Hens-and-chicks (Sempervivum) Try googling it. |
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Live Forever
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 18:02:11 GMT, "KathyA2"
wrote: I have that (Hen and Chicks), in addition to the one I am thinking of. This Live Forever grows tall, about 12 to 16 inches tall. Can I attach a picture? KathyA2 Do you have access to the group alt.binaries.pictures.gardens? that would be the place for pictures. -- - Charles - -does not play well with others |
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Live Forever
Sempervivum literally means "Live Forever" when you translate the generic
name to English. However, thay are not the succulent plant to which you allude. You may be thinking of the widely grown Hylotelephium (formerly Sedum) spectabile. http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...ff&q=%22sedum+ spectabile%22&btnG=Google+Search KathyA2 wrote in message rthlink.net... Hi, I have been lurking for a while. Lots of good info here. My question is, "What is the common name of a plant that is "older than dirt". I always knew it as LiveForever. It is a very easy to grow plant that is light green and has pale pink flowers in the fall I think. It is almost like a succulent. You can break off a piece and stick it in the dirt and it will grow. I have been unable to find anything about it on gardening web sites. It must be know as something else. Can anyone help me? TIA KathyA2 |
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Live Forever
Thank you for all the info. I believe, from the images, that the plant is
sedum. I knew you all could help me!!! KathyA2 "Cereoid-UR12yo" wrote in message m... Sempervivum literally means "Live Forever" when you translate the generic name to English. However, thay are not the succulent plant to which you allude. You may be thinking of the widely grown Hylotelephium (formerly Sedum) spectabile. http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...ff&q=%22sedum+ spectabile%22&btnG=Google+Search KathyA2 wrote in message rthlink.net... Hi, I have been lurking for a while. Lots of good info here. My question is, "What is the common name of a plant that is "older than dirt". I always knew it as LiveForever. It is a very easy to grow plant that is light green and has pale pink flowers in the fall I think. It is almost like a succulent. You can break off a piece and stick it in the dirt and it will grow. I have been unable to find anything about it on gardening web sites. It must be know as something else. Can anyone help me? TIA KathyA2 |
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Live Forever
In article ink.net,
"KathyA2" wrote: Hi, I have been lurking for a while. Lots of good info here. My question is, "What is the common name of a plant that is "older than dirt". I always knew it as LiveForever. It is a very easy to grow plant that is light green and has pale pink flowers in the fall I think. It is almost like a succulent. You can break off a piece and stick it in the dirt and it will grow. I have been unable to find anything about it on gardening web sites. It must be know as something else. Can anyone help me? TIA KathyA2 "Live Forever" or Liveforever is one of those folk-names that shift from species to species depending on where you're from or where your folks were from & what kind of succulents were either native plants or commonly gardened plants. Hen & Chicks, short evergreen Stonecrops, tall deciduous stonecrops (Hylotelephiums), & especially Dudleyas all get called Liveforever by some people. If I had to pick one, chances are you are remembering Lanceleaf Dudleya which throughout the west coast is the primary plant to be called Liveforever. They have tall beautiful pink-succulent stems with pink & yellow flowers up top, but the leafy part is kind of humble, about halfway between a common groundcover stonecrop & a houseleek.All of these things that get called Liveforevers are "easy" plants perfect for child-cared-for rockeries, & nearly all can be started from a single chubby leaf (perhaps not the deciduous stonecrops so easily). -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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