Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 13 JulyA Royal Ruby sempervivum on 13 July, wine-purple at the knotted center and fading out through rose to buff sage at the reflexed outer tips, every leaf margin fringed with fine white hairs and beaded with rain, its pot hidden entirely beneath it.Week of 3 AugustA Royal Ruby hens-and-chicks on 5 August drawn so far it has splayed almost flat, each dusty rose leaf combed along its margin with short stiff white cilia, and a dozen daughter rosettes swinging below it on bare stolons, half crimson and half green.Week of 10 AugustA Royal Ruby sempervivum on 10 August, one flat open rosette of strap leaves in wine-red and dusky rose with a chalky pink stripe up the center and white hairs fringing every margin, ringed by a dozen tight crimson offsets over the rim.Week of 24 AugustA Royal Ruby sempervivum on 27 August, its rosettes deep wine-red and fading to green at the centers, every leaf edged in fine hairs, with small offsets trailing far out on long woody stolons across the shelf beside it.Week of 31 AugustA Royal Ruby sempervivum on 3 September, its rosettes fringed in fine white hairs and shading from dusky maroon tips to pale green centers, spilling over the rim beneath older withered leaves with the lawn bright in the window behind.
