Add sparkling color to your succulent collection with Sempervivum 'Sugar Shimmer', a beautiful selection from the popular Chick Charms® Collection. This eye-catching Hens and Chicks succulent produces compact rosettes in soft shades of pink, creamy white, and pale green that intensify and shift throughout the seasons, creating a frosted, sugar-coated appearance.

This evergreen, cold-hardy succulent thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, making it an excellent choice for rock gardens, fairy gardens, alpine plantings, containers, living walls, and drought-tolerant landscapes. Like other Sempervivums, it produces offsets ("chicks") that gradually form attractive colonies with very little maintenance.

Perfect for collectors and beginner gardeners alike, 'Sugar Shimmer' provides year-round color, texture, and exceptional hardiness.

Key Features

• Chick Charms® collection
• Color-changing succulent
• Soft pink, cream, and pale green rosettes
• Evergreen perennial
• Produces offsets ("chicks")
• Cold hardy
• Drought tolerant
• Deer and rabbit resistant
• Excellent container plant
• Easy-care succulent

Plant Details

Botanical Name: Sempervivum Chick Charms® 'Sugar Shimmer'

Common Name: Sugar Shimmer Hens and Chicks

Plant Type: Evergreen Succulent Perennial

Foliage Color: Pink, Cream, Pale Green

Flower Color: Pink Flower Stalk (Mature Rosettes)

Bloom Season: Summer (Mature Plants)

Mature Height: 4–6 Inches

Spread: 6–12 Inches (Expands by Offsets)

Growth Habit: Compact, Rosette-Forming

Light Requirements: Full Sun

Water Needs: Low

Soil Requirements: Sandy or Rocky, Well-Drained Soil

Hardiness Zones: USDA 4–9

Characteristics: Evergreen, Cold Hardy, Drought Tolerant, Deer Resistant, Rabbit Resistant, Low Maintenance, Color Changing

Garden Uses

Perfect for:

• Rock gardens
• Fairy gardens
• Succulent collections
• Containers
• Window boxes
• Alpine gardens
• Xeriscapes
• Gravel gardens
• Living walls
• Groundcover

Planting Partners

Pairs beautifully with:

• Sedum
• Delosperma
• Echeveria
• Jovibarba
• Thyme
• Lavender
• Blue Fescue
• Artemisia 'Silver Mound'
• Yucca
• Ice Plant

Care Tips

• Plant in gritty, well-drained soil.
• Place in full sun for the brightest foliage colors.
• Water deeply but infrequently.
• Allow soil to dry completely between waterings.
• Protect from standing water during winter.
• Separate offsets ("chicks") to propagate new plants.