Winter Hardy Sedums

It will tolerate most soil types and is drought resistant. An extra bonus is created when you plant ‘Elizabeth' in front of asters or coneflowers. You will love this plant, and the butterflies and bees do too.

If they grow too tall and get floppy, prune the tops to when the stem is firm. Known for its distinctive blue-green to grayish coloring, Blue Chalk Sticks are tall grass-type succulents that will grow in dense mats when allowed to spread.

U.S. Plant Patent #22,457. Easy to grow, sedum 'Sunsparkler Dazzleberry' puts on a great display of texture and color. Blooms are crimson red, blooming for more than 6 weeks, attracting butterflies and pollinators.

Blooms during summer with beautiful, bright, purple-red (violet) flowers. 227,500 seeds/oz.; 2-3 weeks, 60-75°F. Excellent for hot sites in full sun and poor soils. (3-7”) Dragon's Blood Sedum features bronze foliage mats and clusters.

Succulent arrives in a 4" growers pot ready for potting. Ground or base covers are essential when creating a terrarium or arrangement. Like most succulents, they thrive in dry conditions, but will grow faster if kept moist.

Succulent arrives in a 4" growers pot ready for potting. Crassula perforata is an upright-growing succulent that can grow to about 18 inches tall. If the String of Buttons can be easily pruned if it grows too tall.

Popular for hanging planters and fairy gardens. Succulent arrives in a 4" growers pot ready for potting. Sedum 'Little Missy' is a low-growing plant that forms mats up to about 2" tall.

The trick here is not to keep your roses warm, but to prevent them from windburn. That rose kicked the bucket before I even got it planted. MI State University Extension Service Method of mounding up rose bush5.

Set includes four ground cover succulents, in a varying mix of colors and textures. Succulents arrive in 4" growers pots ready for potting. Sedum, Crassula, and Senecio varieties of succulents grow low to the ground and like to spread out.

Popular in hanging baskets. Succulent arrives in a 4" growers pot ready for potting. String of Pearls forms long, trailing strings up to 3 feet in length and grow very well in containers.

Crassula rogersii is a tall, bushy species that grows to up to 12" tall and is characterized by droplet-shaped leaves that have a velvety texture. Crassula is a genus of succulents that vary in shape and size, but we tend to refer to them as "grass" succulents.

A great plant all around, sedum 'Sunsparkler Lime Zinger' is quick growing, deer resistant, drought and heat tolerant and winter hardy to zone 4. Once established the plants thrive in poor soil, long dry spells and harsh weather.

Thrives on neglect in average to poor soils. Sizzling color for your hot, dry problem areas. In late summer, intense, hot pink flower clusters bloom on cherry red stems and last for weeks.

The spreading plant habit of this cultivar is ideal for a spiller in container combinations, along stone paths, or over stone walls. Leaves turn an attractive red-orange in the fall.

Keep competitive weeds away from the new plants.Usually within a month, the plant will be as recovered as if you had never disturbed it. Clip any diseased or damaged roots off. Use a sharp knife and divide the plant into 4- to 6-inch (10-15 cm.) sections,...

One of these, the Vera Jameson stonecrop, is a striking plant with burgundy stems and dusty pink autumn flowers. It needs full sun, but it may tolerate a little bit of shade.This sedum will grow well in any sunny spot, and will take to a container as...

It is useful in full sun to partial shade locations where the low profile of just up to 2 inches (5 cm.) in height allows it to caress hills, rocks, pavers and containers with the tightly packed leaves.

It grows upright with a height of 12 to 15 inches (30-38 cm.) and spreads slightly, with a width of 12 to 24 inches (30-61 cm.). The leaves are slightly fleshy and deep purple in color, sometimes appearing almost black.In midsummer, the plant puts out...

Colorful chubby, little red-tipped leaves that look like jelly beans make it a favorite. If rain is available to the plant, additional water is probably not needed. Others refer to it as Christmas cheer.

They can literally burst with life even in the cracks of a stone wall. Using sedum as a groundcover keeps other plant roots cool, conserves moisture, staves off erosion and establishes very rapidly.

Soon stems form and then starry clusters of flowers. Cut the stem back to 6 inches. The top heavy sedum can usually hold the huge flower up on the thick stock, but occasionally the flower bows to the ground or the stalk may even break.Weak stems are the...

Remove stems by ½ to force horizontal growth. I consider sedums my “go to” lazy gardener plant. In most cases, they can simply be planted and then forgotten, with the exception of occasional watering.

English stone crop establishes easily from bare root and requires little extra care to root and grow. English stonecrop also makes an excellent container plant and will trail lightly in hanging baskets.

Growing sedum is easy, so easy, in fact, that even the most novice gardener can excel at it. For shorter varieties, simply laying the sedum on the ground where you want it to grow is normally enough to get the sedum plant started there.

Or maybe you'd like to soften an unyielding stone wall by tucking brightly colored, shallow rooting perennials into the cracks and crevices. However, container grown plants will need regular watering.Rabbit and deer rarely bother Angelina sedum plants.

Meteor sedums are a cinch to grow in USDA plant hardiness zones 3 through 10.The tiny, deep pink flowers appear in late summer and last well into fall. The blooms are attractive even when they're dry.Meteor stonecrop is moderately drought tolerant but...

They are easy to grow and can be pruned to control size in early spring. Both members of the hibiscus family. These are the tropical types such as Hibiscus rosa-sinensis or Chinese hibiscus.