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What is this Succulent Plant?
Rosie Cupcakes
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I inherited this trough from my Mum four years ago which I have been nuturing back to health.
Can anyone tell me what the succulent is?
One of them has now grown tall. Is this usual?
It is also growing amongst the red sedum and producing little baby plants
I added the geum to fill in the gap.
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I think the first is a sempervivum and it's coming up to flowering
and the second a sedum
In the sticks near Peterborough
I would rescue the geum from the pot. They will not make happy bedfellows. Plant the geum somewhere else. Both the sempervivum and the sedum like a gritty soil and good drainage - the geum will prefer a sunny spot in the garden in normal soil.
Thank you both for identifying the plant.
It's just normal compost in the trough and I have done nothing special to it since I got it from my Mum's. I just don't water it as much as my other pots.
As the sempervivum was producing lots of babies I was thinking about moving it to another pot. Are they okay to move?
Are they better in a pot by themselves? I have a couple of shallow round terracotta pots I could use.
Any help appreicated.
The sempervivum will form a mat as the baby plants grow and expand and the bit with the flower stem will die off. You can move it to a shallow terracotta pot containing gritty compost and with a layer of very tiny pebbles on the surface. Eventually the sempervivum will cover the surface of the pot. They can suffer from vine weevil problems if the larvae burrow into the stem, but the plants are easily resurrected......just skewer the larva and repot.
Ceres - Thanks for the advice.
Just one more question - shall I wait until it has flowered before moving to another pot?
As you will lose the flowering part anyway, it doesn't really matter when you move it. At the moment is is struggling underneath the geum, and sempervivums like to be out in the sun. They are hardy creatures and can take a bit of neglect at times but shade and damp aren't something they are happy with.
Thanks for the advice. It's really appreciated