"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." [table-of-contents] stripped Long before Millennial gardeners made flowering succulents so hugely popular ...

Gardening guru Ciscoe Morris is showcasing Hens and Chicks this week, an easy to care for plant that will spruce up your garden with hardly any water and no need for fertilizer. Hens and Chicks are ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- You probably know them as "Hens-and-chicks," "Live Forever" or "Houseleeks." But their name really is Sempervivums, from the Latin semper, meaning always, and vivus, meaning ...

Browsing in a garden center recently, I came upon a large display of containers attractively planted with succulents, most of them different Sempervivum tectorum cultivars commonly known as ...

Dear Carol: My hens and chicks are growing in a strawberry pot. I brought the pot inside two weeks ago and now the plants are sending out shoots. I'm not sure what they will be able to latch onto to ...

This old-fashioned plant, is often referred to as houseleek I love them for their attractive and intriguing shapes and ability to grow under just about any conditions. They do great anywhere there is ...

Brian Kemble is curator at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. His monthly column focuses on drought-tolerant plants and dry gardens. The name “hens and chicks” is applied both to plants in the ...

Sempervivum means ‘ever living’ and that’s the fitting proper name for the attractive but tough little ground-hugging plants we usually know as ‘hens-and-chicks’. These little rose-shaped plants, from ...