Small round new pads on top of larger old pads gives the plant a silhouette of a rabbit's head. You don't have to hatch eggs to get Hens and Chicks in your zoo garden. Echeveria imbricata is a succulent plant that grows in the shape of a large rose flower called rosettes. Baby plants spring up freely in clusters near the mother plant, hence the mother hen with her baby chicks all around. Bell shaped little orange flowers form on slender stems.
Plants are very drought tolerant.
Horsetail Most of these 'horses' run wild in meadows, marshes and along roadsides. Some may even come into your garden as weeds. The bushy whorls of slender stems that radiate out from a main stem look like a horse's tail. Horsetails today don't usually grow taller than four feet. Say hello to the kangaroo and shake his paw.