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Succulents These water-retaining plants are wonderfully adapted to our arid conditions. Succulents store water in their leaves, stems and roots. They are an exciting addition to the Wyoming landscape, offering a multitude of uses. From ground cover, to cracks in the wall, to fairy and vertical gardens, to trough plantings, these are wonderful and exotic niche plants!
 Chinese Dunce Caps (Orostachys iwarenge) 
New! This hails from the Far East, Dunce Caps start as a low spreading mat of lovely small - blue gray rosettes. It soon forms a multitude of pinkish conical spires - think an elfin cityscape! By September the spires reach 6" tall with pink and white frilly flowers. Will die back after flowering but it self-sows to repeat the show next season. Perfect for containers, rock, fairy and vertical gardens. It maybe small but what a show-stopper!
New! This is among the tiniest of the Hen and Chicks, with lively green rosettes. Ideal for vertical, fairy and dish gardens, troughs, bonsai accent and rock and crevices.
Height Width Zone Watering Sun 1/4 inch 3/4 inch 4 Full Sun
Size Cost Standard $4.00
This is not is not your mother’s Hens and Chicks! One of the most interesting color and geometric patterns in the Hens and Chicks collection. Gray-blue leaves have eye-catching, triangular tips, each with a small rich maroon tip at the apex. Ideal for placement in tight spots in a rock garden, a ground cover, or wherever a small challenging spot needs an interesting plant.
Height Width Zone Watering Sun 4 inches 4 inches 3 Full Sun
Size Cost Standard $4.00
This is a perfect complement to Mrs. Giuseppi. Twilight Blues offers a large, olive-blue foliage shaded with lavender –purple tips. Mix and match!
New! This is a 2012 Plant Select! This color combination of the individual flowers - orange and purple in spring, orangey red in summer, represents a dramatic breakthrough for hardy ice plants! A fast mat - forming carpet of green foliage will keep it's shiny presence well into winter. A perfect addition to the rock garden as a ground cover. Needs well draining soil. Survives up to 6,000 feet altitude.
Size Cost Standard $4.00
'Lavender Ice' Ice Plant (Delosperma x Lavender Ice)
Plant Select® 2009 Stunning iridescent, lavender flowers with dark eyes on trim green foliage mats that turn purplish in winter. A great plant for ground covers, rock gardens, and perennial beds.
Plant Select® 2007 Blazing scarlet flowers form a red carpet atop this 2 inch tall succulent throughout the growing season. Individual plants will become 15-20 inches wide making a striking, fire-resistant ground cover for drought tolerant xeric plantings in sand, loam or clay. For best bloom plant in full sun but partial shade is also tolerated.
Plant Select® 2002 Iridescent salmon-pink blooms top this 2 inch tall succulent that will be an 18 inch wide groundcover at maturity. Blooms and repeats slightly out of sync with Table Mountain to help extend the season of color on these carpet-like plants. Click Here to watch our VIDEO about Mesa Verde Ice Plant.
Plant Select® 1998 This upright clumping succulent produces a dome of bright pink flowers with eye-catching centers on a 4 inch tall by 10 inch wide plant. The petals have an almost metallic shimmer. Blooming starts in June and repeats until fall.
This Proven Winners’ plant from Croatia really is a winner. Brilliant yellow tipped light green conifer shaped leaves become orange tinged during early and late season growing conditions. The 6 to 8 inch tall by up to 12 inch wide plant is a strong grower and is as tough as nails: successfully over wintering in rock pockets and at the edges of planters left outdoors and ignored. Use this one not only in the traditional sunny dry garden as a groundcover, edging, or accent but also in combination hanging baskets, as planter or barrel edging. Best color develops in full sun.
New! This is extremely polymorphic (genetic variations that produce differing characteristics in individuals of the same population, whew!) giving rise to endless variations and forms. This variety has a multitude of uses from skirt plants in containers, bonsai, groundcover, cracks in the rock, roof and vertical gardens! A change in sky conditions can change the blue leaves to gray or lilac mauve! Produces a pink flower in summer.
New! This is an improved Dragon's Blood with rose-red flowers on short stems above bronze foliage that keeps it's color season long! This mat-froming sedum is great for the rock garden, between stepping stones, wall cracks, roof or vertical gardens. Excellent drought tolerance, will not tolerate soggy soils.
Lidakense Sedum (Sedum cauticola ‘Lidakense’) The succulent leaves of this sedum is a standout all by itself with a color blend of purplish-blue gray. In September it blooms with intense pink-red flowers. This is a must for the rock garden, raised and perennial bed.
New! From far east Russia comes this clump forming sedum with fleshy 2" long serrated leaves with light green foliage and distinctive yellow margins make this plant very striking when not in flower. Star shaped yellow flowers emerge in summer. Great for rock gardens, roof and vertical gardens and ground covers!
Tricolor Sedum (Sedum spurium 'Tricolor') New! This one has flat, rounded leaves that are white, pink and three shades of green! Tricolor is a mat-forming sedum that produces pink star shaped flowers throughout summer. Like all the others, Tricolor has a multitude of uses!
New! This is a beautiful plant that adds color to the garden even when it's not in bloom. New growth shows blue-green leaves that slowly turn deep red burgandy purple - striking! In late summer, Vera Jameson produces rose pink star shaped flowers. A great butterfly attractor! Great for rock gardens, roof and vertical gardens!
Rain Gauge Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
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Miniature Hen and Chicks (Jovibarba hirta subsp. arenaria) 
Mrs. Giuseppi Hens and Chicks (Sempervivum calcareum ‘Mrs. Giuseppi’) 
Twilight Blue Hens and Chicks ( Sepervivum ‘Twilight Blues’)
Fire Spinner Ice Plant (Delosperma 'POO1S') 
Angelina
Sedum
(Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’)
Corsican Stone Crop (Sedum dasyphyllum var. glanuliferum) 
Glowing Fire Sedum (Sedum spurium 'Fuldaglut' Glowing Fire)
The Edge Sedum (sedum kamtschaticum 'the Edge') 
Vera Jameson Sedum ( Sedum 'Vera Jameson') 
These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant death.
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