This mix lets you enjoy the range of Sempervivum's foliage, from gray-green to deep magenta-mahogany tones, including some variegated types. The blooms also vary, from upright to pendant and from yellow to pink shades.
For indoor growing, sow seeds in a mixture of 2/3 soilless medium and 1/3 gravel. After the plant emerges, sprinkled a thin coating of gravel over the top of the soil to keep the moisture in. Pkt is 300 seeds.
Situate them in borders and rock gardens, use as edging material, and grow as houseplants. Their habits are that of small rosettes of succulent, evergreen leaves from which arise 3-12 inch long flowering stems. The 1 inch, star-shaped, yellow, red, white, pink, or purple flowers appear in clusters in late summer and fall. Sempervivum tectorum, Hens and Chicks, is the most common and best known. It forms 4 inch rosettes and has reddish purple flowers
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.
This mix lets you enjoy the range of Sempervivum's foliage, from gray-green to deep magenta-mahogany tones, including some variegated types. The blooms also vary, from upright to pendant and from yellow to pink shades.
For indoor growing, sow seeds in a mixture of 2/3 soilless medium and 1/3 gravel. After the plant emerges, sprinkled a thin coating of gravel over the top of the soil to keep the moisture in. Pkt is 300 seeds.
Situate them in borders and rock gardens, use as edging material, and grow as houseplants. Their habits are that of small rosettes of succulent, evergreen leaves from which arise 3-12 inch long flowering stems. The 1 inch, star-shaped, yellow, red, white, pink, or purple flowers appear in clusters in late summer and fall. Sempervivum tectorum, Hens and Chicks, is the most common and best known. It forms 4 inch rosettes and has reddish purple flowers
Superior Germination Through Superior Science
First of all, we have humidity- and temperature-controlled storage, and we never treat any of our seeds with chemicals or pesticides. Nor do we ever sell GMO's (genetically modified seeds), so you always know the products you're buying from us are natural as well as safe for you and the environment.
Superior Standards - University Inspected
Hand Packed By Experienced Technicians
Park Seed has been handling and packing vegetable and flower seeds for 145 years, a history that has given us a great understanding of how each variety should be cared for and maintained throughout every step of theprocess, from collection to shipping.
When packing our seeds, the majority are actually done by hand (with extreme care!), and we often over-pack them, so you're receiving more than the stated quantity.
The Park Seed Gold Standard
Heirloom Seeds are open-pollinated -- they are not hybrids. You can gather and save heirloom seed from year to year and they will grow true to type every year, so they can be passed down through generations. To be considered an heirloom, a variety would have to be at least from the 1940's and 3 generations old (many varieties are much older -- some 100 years or more!).
Hybrid seed are the product of cross-pollination between 2 different parent plants, resulting in a new plant/seed that is different from the parents. Unlike Heirloom seed, hybrid seed need to be re-purchased new every year (and not saved). They usually will not grow true to type if you save them, but will revert to one of the parents they were crossed with and most likely look/taste different in some way.