Here I've used a bowl and planted a mix of stonecrop and
houseleek. Sedum 'Cape Blanco' holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit and has golden flower heads over mats of small rosettes with silvery-white flesh.
Frost-hardy plants, on the other hand, such as sempervivum -
houseleek - and papaver - poppy - can be planted directly in the garden.
50-54 Hens and chicks, Sempervivum 35-47
houseleek Jade plant Crassula argentea 50-60 (Crassula portulaca, Crassula arborescens) Kalanchoe Kalanchoe spp.
Echeveria setosa, meanwhile, is a small plant that looks a bit like a
houseleek but has lovely flowering spikes in the summer.
Some have picturesque names, like broad-lipped purple side-saddle flower, cobweb
houseleek, lion's tail phlomis, livid hellebore, melancholy toadflax, parrot-beaked heliconia, and warty St.
Houseleek or hens and chicks (sempervivium tectorum) can be used much like aloe, and it's winter hardy.
This was proved upon Sr Jon Wilton, & many more." Breast milk also was employed in a treatment "for heat in the Kidnies," in combination with
houseleek, plantane, rose water, and wine vinegar.(20) As late as the second half of the eighteenth century, breast milk still was recommended as an ingredient in medicinal recipes.
Healing: Comfrey,
Houseleek, Lady's Mantle, Linden flowers, Mint, Nettle, Yarrow
Aeonium arboreum, the tree
houseleek, forms a 2ft shrub.
Echeveria setosa is a small plant, looks a bit like a
houseleek but has lovely flowering spikes in the summer.
arachnoideum has gray green rosettes crisscrossed with filaments resembling cobwebs (the plants common name is cobweb
houseleek); bright red flowers are borne on 4- to 6-inch stems.