[ArrogantBustard]

In the front yard is a "hen and chicks"

I didn't know "hens & chicks" were an Italian thing ... I just assumed all sane people planted them ... everybody in my family does, including the military families. We've left them all over the country. Plant them when moving into a new house, dig up a few (they propagate like nothing else) for the new house when Dad gets a PCS.

[I still care]

If you go to the Italian sections of Brooklyn, most everyone has these on the stoop in big cement urns. They are supposed to bring good luck to a new household.