Sempervivum tectorum 'Rubin'
By Spritzhenry
- 26 Apr, 2010
- 13 likes
Having cleared the ivy out of the drystone wall, I'm trying to get a few plants established in the cracks.
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Thanks....I just hope it 'takes' in the crack.
26 Apr, 2010
Doesn't this mean your wall won't be struck by lightning? :-))
27 Apr, 2010
Duh? Sorry - not with that one, Wagger...
27 Apr, 2010
Snap I have just bought this one to go in an old sink rockery arrangment . :o)
27 Apr, 2010
The small ones usually do best, to get you started a piece of copper wire down to the ground will earth it Wagger.
27 Apr, 2010
Thunderplants (Sempervivums) were grown on the roofs of houses from earliest medieval & perhaps ancient times, in the belief that they protected the house from lightning strikes. In Slavic nations, the tradition of roof-top houseleeks is still practiced. At first glance this seems like it should be a baseless superstition, but if indeed a thatch roof, inordinantly susceptible to fire, were covered with moist succulents, even if lightning did strike, there would be a vastly reduced possibility of cumbustion. The spiked rosette is said additionally to disperse positively charged particles that attract lightning's negative charge.
27 Apr, 2010
Ah-ha! Thanks for the history lesson! This wall is way across the garden from the house - so I don't think I'll 'earth' it. ;-)
27 Apr, 2010
Thanks Wagger, it's very good to know that. As with many things used through the ages to build houses/huts, when fire was used inside it only took a spark to destroy it. Wareham in Dorset restricts the building of thatched houses because of a fire years ago that spread very quickly through the town.
27 Apr, 2010
Well we learn something every day .. thanks Wagger ...
27 Apr, 2010
Thanks Wagger, what would we do without you?
27 Apr, 2010
Live a saner life, Daisy?
28 Apr, 2010
Not you, not you.....hmmmmm....
28 Apr, 2010
Nothing's sane on planet Wagger, Spritz!
29 Apr, 2010
LOL.
29 Apr, 2010
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We are very fond of these easy plants, bought a large one called Jupiter which I must put on. good close up Barbara......
26 Apr, 2010