Sempervivum 'Gold Nugget'

Hen and chicks 'Gold Nugget'

Family: Crassulaceae (Orphine Family)

       

·        Hardiness Zones:  3-8

·        Height: 2-3 inches

·        Spread: 6-8 inches

·        Bloom Time: summer

·        Bloom: starry, pink flowers on a thick stalk arising from the rosette center

·        Light: full sun to light shade

·        Soil: poor to moderately fertile, exceptionally well-drained, gritty soil

·        Moisture: low water needs; extremely drought tolerant once established; intolerant of wet  soil

·        Use: alpine or rock garden, container, ground cover; particularly effective when planted in the cracks and crevices of stone walls or walkways

·        Care: low maintenance; protect from winter wet; easily propagated by removing small baby rosettes to a new location

·        Concerns: no serious insect or disease problems; watch for rust, vine weevil

·        Native to: hybrid cultivar; genus native to alpine regions of central and southern Europe

·        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

·        Supplier: Kopke's Fruit of the Bloom

·        Teaching Garden Location & Code: Rock Garden C291

 

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