Butterscotch Baby™ Hens and Chicks

Whether you are new to gardening or are an expert searching for another alluring cultivar, Butterscotch Baby™ Hens and Chicks will make you smile! Along with its adorable name, this succulent evergreen perennial features a rosette of large bicolored leaves, golden butterscotch at their centers and garnet red at their tips. Also known as Sempervivum ‘Hordubal’, this stunning cultivar, grows to 3 inches high and 6 inches wide and is cold hardy in zones 3-8. Luring pollinators with its pink blooms, this monocarpic variety also attracts butterflies and supports bees.

Native to the mountains of East Europe and the Middle East, this evergreen succulent spreads across open spaces while growing slowly. It is drought, heat, and salt tolerant and deer and rabbit resistant, so it poses minimal problems. Add it as an accent to beds and borders. Plant it in containers, crevices, and along slopes. Are you starting a xeric rock garden? Butterscotch Baby™ Hens and Chicks should be your first resident! 

Butterscotch Baby™ Hens and Chicks Care

During spring, plant Butterscotch Baby™ in full sun. Ensure the soil drains well, as this cultivar does not appreciate wet feet. Amend poorly draining soil with sand, perlite, or grit. Water only when the soil’s surface is dry. Butterscotch Baby™ Hens and Chicks tolerates nutrient-deficient soil, so refrain from applying fertilizer unless necessary.

Low-maintenance Butterscotch Baby™ Hens and Chicks requires minimal pruning. Trim any brown foliage from the rosette’s base during late fall to prevent development of fungal disease during moist winters; otherwise, no pruning is typically required. This succulent requires less moisture during the winter than the rest of the year, so reduce watering whether maintaining it outdoors or indoors. If desired, you can bring the plant indoors over the winter and place it in bright direct light.

Butterscotch Baby™ Hens and Chicks Spacing

Space plants 4 to 6 inches apart. Add this low-maintenance rosette, or “hen”, to a bed or container and watch her offsets, or “chicks”, fill in open space with more beautiful color and texture. Plant in mixed containers with companion plants, including agave, echeveria, sedum, sage, and juniper. Add to alpine gardens or green roofs along with sedum.

Butterscotch Baby™ Hens and Chicks Information