Another, Senior moment

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  1. capney

    capney Head Gardener

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    I do know you name of this...honest, its on the tip of my tongue,
    Someone please remind me.
    robert

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    Robert; It's Houseleeks (Sempervivum) - also know as "Hens and chicks "
     
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    Isn't it one of the Sedums (Ice Plant, Stonecrop) Robert?

    Don't know which one but I'm not having a senior moment :hehe: just a blonde moment :lollol:

    No doubt some young whippersnapper with a good memory will come along and tell us. :help:
     
  4. Blackthorn

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    Yes houseleeks, and lovely they are too.
     
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    :old::old:I knew there was "Leeks" in there somewhere:old::old:
     
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    Quite correct JWK and Blackthorn ... Sempervivum arachnoideum ... should have turned the page in my book .... :dh:
     
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    Thanks V... not that I shall remember that name!:old:
     
  8. Blackthorn

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    Houseleeks, much easier to remember. Here in Cornwall they grow on the slate roofs of old cottages, hence the house bit, but I've no idea why 'leek'. Or maybe eventually they make the slate porous and therefore 'leak'? :D
     
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