Hen and chicks 'Gold Nugget'
Family: Crassulaceae (Orphine
Family)
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Hardiness Zones: 3-8
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Height: 2-3 inches
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Spread: 6-8 inches
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Bloom Time: summer
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Bloom: starry, pink flowers on a thick stalk arising from the
rosette center
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Light: full sun to light shade
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Soil: poor to moderately fertile,
exceptionally well-drained, gritty soil
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Moisture: low water needs; extremely
drought tolerant once established; intolerant of wet soil
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Use: alpine or rock garden, container,
ground cover; particularly effective when planted in the cracks and crevices of
stone walls or walkways
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Care: low maintenance; protect from
winter wet; easily propagated by removing small baby rosettes to a new location
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Concerns: no serious insect or disease
problems; watch for rust, vine weevil
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Native to: hybrid cultivar; genus native to
alpine regions of central and southern Europe
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Notes: showy, mat-forming succulent forming
evergreen rosettes of fleshy, brilliantly-colored leaves (up to 1 1/4 inches
long and 1/2 inch wide) with margins bearing soft-short hairs; foliage is
neon-yellow with bright red leaf margins in spring and fall, turning neon lime
all over in summer, and crimson with honey-gold margins in winter; monocarpic,
like other Sempervivums, so mother rosette dies after flowering, creating space
for the chicks (offsets) to develop in a circle around the withered mother;
each offset will develop roots of its own, and
separate to form a new colony; cold hardy to -30º F; rabbit and deer
resistant; salt tolerant
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Supplier: Kopke's Fruit of the Bloom
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Teaching Garden
Location & Code: Rock Garden C291
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