Sempervivum 'Red Beauty' ~ Red Beauty Hens and Chicks size-1pt-pot COMPANION PLANTS: Coral Bells

COMPANION PLANTS:  Coral Bells

while female flowers mature to the familiar brown sausage-like fruiting tip

The large purple-pink flowers have a strong bloom in mid-spring and smaller blooms in summer and fall

(2) Photoset by Famartin

The leaves are smaller than those of the traditional Southern Magnolia

Sempervivum 'Red Beauty' ~ Red Beauty Hens and Chicks size-1pt-pot COMPANION PLANTS: Coral BellsRed Beauty Hens and Chicks is a mat forming evergreen succulent that grows in tight rosettes of flat frosty grey green foliage with deep red tips that flushes further as the weather cools. The mother Rosset(hen) spreads out with horizontal stems to seed offsets (chicks). Infrequently in summer a short stalk rises from the hen sporting clusters of deep pink flowers. The hen dies after flowering, giving space for the chicks to grow. Best color with full