California Gardening: Nearly impossible?, 1 by surfcity

surfcity wrote:
Could be senecio, or blue chalk fingers that your DH is thinking of. There's a larger variety that can grow 6-8 inches high. The type in this picture, are mini blue chalk fingers which grows about 3 inches high (it's interplanted with dymondia, the grasslike plant, in a small bird bath with a little cement bird in the middle).

Senecio does flower occasionally as all succulents do, but the flowers on senecio aren't particularly attractive and I just pinch them off when the stalks appear. Senecio is very easy care, isn't picky, and needs very little water, if any, once established. There's a green variety, too, but I like the grayish blue of the "chalk fingers".

According to the plant files I looked at, it's hardy to 20 degrees.