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Rolling Hen-and-chickens in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Jovibarba globifera

 

Rolling Hen-and-chickens

Jovibarba is a perennial herb. It has a rosette of leaves of 2.5-4cm wide & a flower stem of 10-20cm. Leaves are curved, fleshy & with reddish brown tips. They produce small globe-shaped offsets that are lightly attached & easily pop off & roll away from the mother plant. Jovibarba can be annuals, or mat-forming, evergreen or herbaceous perennials.

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plant Features
  • Rolling Hen-and-chickens likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Rolling Hen-and-chickens likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Rolling Hen-and-chickens is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Rolling Hen-and-chickens likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Rolling Hen-and-chickens

Latin name

Jovibarba globifera

type

Herbacious Annual or perennial

family

Crassulaceae

ph

5.5 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Rolling Hen-and-chickens likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Rolling Hen-and-chickens is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Soil

    Rolling Hen-and-chickens likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

  • Water

    Rolling Hen-and-chickens likes very little water

    Very little water

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    Best time to plant
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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Rolling Hen-and-chickens is 0.10meters x 0.12meters 0.10 M 0.12 M

Jovibarba globifera

Jovibarba is a perennial herb. It has a rosette of leaves of 2.5-4cm wide & a flower stem of 10-20cm. Leaves are curved, fleshy & with reddish brown tips. They produce small globe-shaped offsets that are lightly attached & easily pop off & roll away from the mother plant. Jovibarba can be annuals, or mat-forming, evergreen or herbaceous perennials.


Flowering

From Late Spring TO Early Autumn

Jovibarba flower in late Spring and early Summer

 

Planting

From Early Spring TO Mid Spring

Plant in Spring in free-draining soil, in rock-gardens, or border edges. Once established this plant is drought-tolerant

 

Propagating by division

From Early Spring TO Mid Spring

Plants are easily divided in Spring. Dig up the plant, and pull it apart gently, then replant the sections with roots in to their new positions.

 
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