I am sure glad I captured this lovely, flowering Hen and Chicks before a deer and her little fawn snacked on it. This little plant had been quietly sitting in it's pot for years. Then all of the sudden a stem started rising above the others and one morning the beautiful blooms started opening, one by one. What a surprise!! As Mom only ate the flower stalks, I am hopeful that we'll get more flowers as time goes by. If not, so be it. 
Wow... that is beautiful. I've never seen that before. I have a Hens & Chicks planted in my rock garden and it'll send out a large flower from time to time (hasn't this year, so far) but never a trailing one like that. I ought to try planting one in a pot, like you did. Beautiful! But you do have a green thumb, don't you? That's one plant the deer have never bothered in my yard.
ReplyDeleteI was very surprised to see it flower I must say. I've had other forms of hen and chicks, but never one that had that color flower. And that pot was an accident really. The deer had janked up part of another pot they were in, so I just kind of threw what was left of the original plant into a half filled pot of soil. And they thrived, don't ask me why. No doubt the only reason it's trailing is that so many flowers opened and it sits on an old wooden stepladder, therefore the only way to go was over and down. :) All you have to do to start one in a pot is to steal a few of the chicks of the mother plant and put it in a container. Then splash some water on it now and then and ignore it.Until it gets tired of being ignored. At which time it will burst into bloom???
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful! Resembles ice plant blooms.. but better! Lovely!
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