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19-07-2014, 07:12 PM
Originally Posted by Nippy 
Thanks Janet, someone "somewhere else" told me it would die now
I'm glad it won't!
] "After flowering, the plant dies, usually leaving many offsets it has produced during its life."But jantet says hers did not, so who knows?!
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Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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19-07-2014, 07:59 PM
All I know is, we started with a few (can't remember where they came from) and now we have hundreds!
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19-07-2014, 08:28 PM
I love the name "Hen and Chicks"!
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20-07-2014, 08:34 AM
Originally Posted by jantet
Who am I to argue with Wikipedia! Perhaps what I think are the original ones are actually the babies and the poor parents have died!
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Interesting reading there Malka
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20-07-2014, 08:45 AM
Originally Posted by Nippy
Oh noooo orphaned plants
Interesting reading there Malka
1 - I am a naturally nosy booger who wants to know all about all sorts of "stuff", and
2 - I remember those plants from when we were very young [many, many decades ago] and Father had a rockery in one corner of the garden. We called them "Ice cabbages".
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20-07-2014, 05:03 PM
Originally Posted by Malka
I was nosy for two reasons.
1 - I am a naturally nosy booger who wants to know all about all sorts of "stuff", and
2 - I remember those plants from when we were very young [many, many decades ago] and Father had a rockery in one corner of the garden. We called them "Ice cabbages".
Thought the way they are multiplying perhaps we should call them 'triffids!'
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