Sempervivum Seed ( Perennial )

Hippy Chicks (Sempervivum Pelleted Seeds) is a colorful blend of hardy hens-and-chicks selected for outstanding foliage diversity, compact growth, and exceptional garden performance. Grown from convenient pelleted seeds, this unique mix produces an exciting range of rosettes in shades of emerald green, silver, blue-green, burgundy, mahogany, bronze, crimson, and purple. As the seasons change, many plants develop even richer colors, making every planting a living tapestry of ever-changing beauty. Perfect for rock gardens, containers, alpine troughs, and green roofs, Hippy Chicks offers remarkable color with almost no maintenance.

Hippy Chicks is ideal for rock gardens, alpine gardens, fairy gardens, succulent bowls, patio containers, green roofs, stone walls, trough gardens, gravel gardens, and planting between stepping stones. The attractive rosettes provide outstanding texture and color throughout the year and combine beautifully with sedums, creeping thyme, saxifrages, dwarf ornamental grasses, hardy ice plants, and miniature conifers.

The pelleted seeds make sowing much easier than handling the extremely tiny raw seed. Sow pellets on the surface of a fine, well-drained seed-starting mix and gently press them into the soil without covering deeply, as light improves germination. Maintain temperatures between 65° and 70°F while keeping the growing medium lightly moist. Germination generally occurs within 14 to 28 days.

Transplant seedlings into full sun or light afternoon shade in very well-drained sandy, gravelly, or rocky soil. Sempervivums thrive in lean soils and require very little supplemental watering once established. Avoid rich soils and excessive moisture, particularly during winter, as standing water can damage the rosettes. Mature plants gradually produce offsets, forming beautiful colonies that continue to expand each year.

Hens and Chicks (Sempervivum hybridum) is one of the world's most beloved hardy succulents, admired for its perfectly symmetrical rosettes, remarkable cold hardiness, and incredible range of foliage colors. This charming perennial forms neat rosettes known as "hens" that produce numerous smaller offsets, or "chicks," creating beautiful expanding colonies year after year. Depending on the variety and season, the foliage may display shades of emerald green, blue-green, silver, bronze, burgundy, crimson, purple, or nearly black. Exceptionally easy to grow, Hens and Chicks thrives where many other plants fail, making it an ideal choice for rock gardens, containers, green roofs, and alpine landscapes.

Hens and Chicks is perfect for rock gardens, alpine gardens, succulent bowls, fairy gardens, trough gardens, green roofs, retaining walls, gravel gardens, containers, and planting between stepping stones. Its geometric rosettes create fascinating texture while providing year-round interest. It combines beautifully with sedums, creeping thyme, hardy ice plants, saxifrages, dwarf ornamental grasses, and miniature conifers.

Sow seeds indoors 8 to 10 weeks before the final spring frost. Scatter seeds over the surface of a fine, sharply drained seed-starting mix and gently press them into the soil without covering deeply, as light improves germination. Maintain temperatures between 65° and 70°F while keeping the growing medium lightly moist. Germination generally occurs within 14 to 28 days.

Transplant seedlings into full sun or light afternoon shade in very well-drained sandy, gravelly, or rocky soil. Sempervivums prefer lean soils and should never remain in standing water. Once established, they require very little supplemental watering and tolerate heat, drought, cold, and poor soils with ease. Mature plants naturally produce offsets around the original rosette, gradually forming attractive colonies that expand from year to year.

Common Houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the original and most famous member of the Hens and Chicks family, treasured for centuries for its remarkable hardiness, perfectly symmetrical rosettes, and ability to thrive where few other plants can survive. Forming dense colonies of fleshy, pointed leaves in shades of green, blue-green, bronze, and reddish-purple, this evergreen succulent provides year-round beauty with almost no maintenance. During summer, mature rosettes produce impressive flower stalks topped with clusters of star-shaped pink blossoms before giving way to the next generation of young offsets, ensuring the colony continues to flourish for years to come.

Common Houseleek is ideal for rock gardens, alpine gardens, green roofs, stone walls, trough gardens, succulent containers, fairy gardens, retaining walls, gravel gardens, and planting between stepping stones. Its attractive geometric rosettes provide year-round texture and pair beautifully with sedums, creeping thyme, saxifrages, hardy ice plants, dwarf ornamental grasses, and miniature conifers. It is equally at home in formal alpine collections and casual cottage gardens.

Sow seeds indoors 8 to 10 weeks before the final spring frost. Scatter seeds over the surface of a fine, sharply drained seed-starting mix and gently press them into the soil without covering deeply, as light promotes germination. Maintain temperatures between 65° and 70°F while keeping the growing medium lightly moist. Germination generally occurs within 14 to 28 days.

Transplant seedlings into full sun or light afternoon shade in very well-drained sandy, gravelly, or rocky soil. Common Houseleek thrives in lean soils and should never remain in standing water. Once established, plants require very little supplemental watering and tolerate heat, drought, wind, poor soils, and severe winter cold. Mature plants naturally produce numerous offsets that gradually develop into attractive expanding colonies.