I have LOVED hens and chicks/the plant, since I was a very young girl and mom and dad took me to the PI Livestock Show in Portland Oregon, clear back to the sixties ... early sixties <g>
anyway, I would buy them and take them to my mother, and they would die.
Finally in the middle nineties, I was watching an HGTV program or something and they mentioned that for the hens and chicks to reproduce, they have to freeze during the winter ...
so! AHA ... got the ranch and went to the Master Gardeners sale and bought all the hens and chicks I could get my hands on ... made a special place to plant them, and EVERYTHING ... alas!
Between my killing them with love, and the chickens enjoying them :?
I still don't have hens and chicks :cry:
But, I still like them ... just for general information, if it hasn't been answered already - - they are a succulent, part of the cactus family.
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nice project, too, by the way! LOL