Showy Stonecrop Sedum 'Strawberries and Cream' (SEE-dum)
Another Ruby Tuesday entry. All of the tall Sedums make a wonderful addition to the fall garden. This one is nice since it has purple foliage that is different from most of the others. The flower color is also different. The red and creamy white combination is always a good one to me and is often a default color scheme (with bright white added in) for my work gardens. . . .
This is a sedum plant which I am adoring. I love the way the pink color of the plant hides under the green and white external leaves. Sedums love full sun, is heat tolerant and needs minimual water. This plant creeps to create a low, mat ground cover.
This is a photo of my Sedum of unknown name in my backyard. The plant came with the house and must be one of the older varieties. It’s quite floppy, especially when well watered.
I took this photo at the beginning of October when the flowers were just starting to die down. The bumble bee’s were out and were especially enjoying the New York Asters but they like visiting the Sedum plants as well.
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Had last week's GCA Fashion in Bloom at Homestead Gardens event taken place just a month earlier I'd have used this shot as my cover image for our Sept/Oct '07 issue of Washington Gardener Magazine. The sedums that make up this cat are known to me as Hens & Chicks, but I have also heard them referred to once or twice as Cats & Kittens. It only makes sense to use them to create a living, life-size sculpture of a cat. They are also the subject of our current cover story (Hardy Succulents). At the event was also a sedum sheep grazing, a sedum rooster crowing, and the company named written in sedum hanging on the side of a wooden shed. The sedum letters are of most interest to me -- what a great idea for a garden at any office, school, or retail store. The Fashion in Bloom is to preview what is new and hot in next year's garden plants. I saw a lot of "I wants," but not too much "I need." I'll be featuring some of the new intros in our magazine's Jan/Feb '08 issue and also throughout the year in our Washington Gardener Enews"Spotlight Special" column.
The thing about nature is that there is a dependability to it - seasons, cycles, rhythm. The cycle that's starting now is the one where I admit that my garden was not what I hoped it would be this year, and it's right on time.
The best thing about this time of year is the appearance of the Autumn Joy sedum flower heads. These are so hardy and so plentiful that I divide them using a hacksaw.
I throw some away every year because I just don't know enough people to
give them to. There are several reasons that I'll always have these in my garden. . .
What a reliable plant this is- Sedum Autumn Joy, every year without fail it shows up to do its work of bringing color and shape to the fall garden. I'm not quite sure how this happened but we actually have four of them - one in each bed- here is one forming a nice trio with the Wiegela and fuschia. A couple of things I don't like about it is that it gets a little awkward when the flowers really start to color . It gets top heavy and loses the tight shape that it had and starts to tumble over. The other is that it attracts a serious contingent of bees- a little worrisome when you have a little French Bulldog shadowing you while gardening only because I've seen so many reports of their bad reactions to bee stings. I like them as cut flowers because they are so architectural- see the photo above where they cast all kinds of interesting shadows in the morning light.
The Sedum in Hils garden was just opening its flower buds on Friday night. The colours are like candy, with pink and white mingling together.
Its Sunday early morning now.I have to get ready for work again tomorrow.
There is an Autumn Flower show next week in Harrogate. I will be going there with my camera in situ. The last flower show of the year. Will be looking for spring bulbs for Fran.
Hope all your Sundays are peaceful and full of Gardening :)
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As promised, here are a couple pics of my sedums. The top is 'Neon' - it is a patch near my front door and the one that gets regularly pummeled by newspapers flung at it. Still holds up pretty well, nice bright foliage in a part shade spot. When its blooms open in a week or so, they will be bright pink. The bottom pic is 'Autumn Joy.' This patch is near the downspout off my sun room and in theory would get a lot more sun than the 'Neon' but the Caryopteris and Russian Sage next to have grown into monsters and block most of the direct rays. It is just about to bloom. . . .
This is the only flower in my garden that seems "happy" right now. 'Autumn Joy' Sedum. Even its name has a happy word in it... joy.
How do I know it's "happy"? Can flowers be "happy"?
My sedum flowers aren't wilting, they are as big and full as they have ever been, and they are starting to attract bees. They are signaling the end of summer and the beginning of fall. Presumably they will go to seed at some point well after the first frost. They are a bright spot in my otherwise dismal flower garden. . . .
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Almost every garden has at least one Sedum in it and for good reason. Sedum look good all season. They are virtually pest resistant and require minimal maintenance....
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Not so much in Los Angeles, according to the LA Times:
Sedum... as in the evergreen ground cover cited so often as a water-sipping lawn alternative. As in the heat-absorbing flora frequently employed on green rooftops. As in the versatile, low-maintenance species that work so well on slopes, in rock gardens, around pavers and as filler plants in containers.
While eye-arresting echeverias, otherworldly aeoniums and architectural Agave attenuata take center stage in succulent landscapes and magazine spreads, the poor sedum trudges on, underappreciated and barely recognized -- the character actor you know you've seen before, but you're just not sure where.
We like sedums. They are good. Happy Happy Joy Times.
This past fall I couldn't resist buying a couple of 1 gallon Sedums for the garden after they had been discounted. I planted the two Sedum 'Autumn Joy' plants in the garden hoping they would still have enough time to establish themselves before winter hit. They became victims to family members who couldn't walk down the garden path and had to step over plants to get around to the side of the house. Then there was the large stray dog I found one early December morning laying on top of them and playfully pawing at them and digging them up. . . .
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This picture was taken at Wave Hill Gardens in the Bronx. The plant was gorgeous, a real splash of color. I think it would mix well with dark colored foliage plants. Sedums can be a fast spreader so you have to watch it. It is easy to root or new plants can be gained by division. . . .
Sedum and grass. I like the way the sedum pulls out the red in the grass and its a nice combination of succulent rigid foliage and swaying grass even when it isn't blooming.
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"Autumn Joy" sedum is one of the stonecrop plants and is often used in border plantings and in rock gardens. Its relatively late blooming period -- the source of the...
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A beautiful addition to the fall garden is Sedum. It blooms late in the season and adds a pretty pink to the landscape. They love the sun, and don't seem to mind dry weather or heavy rains. I have sedum located in two places in my yard. One area is heavy clay and the other area is modified soil. The sedum located in the heavy clay are somewhat smaller than those growing in the modified soil, but
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Realization Of The Day: After several minutes of closely scrutinizing the mysterious squash plants in the garden this morning, I have changed my mind about them once again. Yep, less than twenty four hours after writing about them. I saw tendrils. I saw leaves nearly 12 inches across. I am now thinking gourd. I am also thinking that I need a break from these blasted garden mysteries (oh yes, there's still more than one squash mystery to solve), so I am going to spend the rest of the day admiring something that I can positively identify instead--my Sedum Autumn Joy. (And if that isn't what it really is, please don't tell me until tomorrow. . .
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Plantarium 2006 Press Award for Sedum ‘Postman’s Pride’
Sedum ‘Postman’s Pride’
Sedum ‘Postman’s Pride’ was announced as the winner of the Plantarium 2006 Press Award at the recent international horticultural exhibition in The Netherlands. The plant was shown by Gebr. Jonkers Elshout BV of Elshout, The Netherlands. The international jury of horticultural trade journalists said that Sedum ‘Postman’s Pride’ catches the eye because of the beautiful dark colour of both leaf and flower and the fact that it is attractive all year round. . . .
Or at least it crept up on me. My original clump was grown from a few branches I brought home from a walk along the bike path. Someone had obviously "donated" their clump to the city because it grew only in that one spot, and it isn't exactly a native plant. The little branches got shoved unceremoniously into the flower bed using the poke and plant method. Fingers being the original all-purpose garden tool. They prospered.. . .
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No matter how many times I have told my sedum plants -’Autumn Joy’ and ‘Matrona’- to stand up straight, they prefer to flop this late summer. You can read about this floppy attitude of sedums all ove
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The mystery sedum is S. alboroseum medio-variegatum (I discovered I had kept the tag after all, when I was weeding that bed the other day), next to Geranium 'Orion'.
There's another sedum all over the place here that has self-seeded, even in the woods. I don't know what that one is -- my guess would be S. spectabile. The only other sedum that I have is S. 'Matrona', a lovely one with purplish leaves. . .
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Why in the world is my Autumn Sedum blooming in early July.. Perhaps it is the dry hot weather, but to be truthful I don't really know.. It usually is September for me.. I am hoping that when the stalks are finished and clipped off, that they will bloom again, more at the appropriate spot..
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Voodoo stonecrop. An evocative name. Dark, smoky purple leaves calling up images of dark, smoky rooms, redolent with incense and... OK, so I don't know anything about voodoo and it shows. (Do they use incense?) But you have to admit, it was an inspired choice of a name for a purple-leafed creeping sedum and the seeds were even on clearance. Of COURSE I bought them. . .
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I remember picking up this plant at Bunnings about 2 seasons ago as we tried adding some autumn colour to our garden. I was infatuated with the colour of the foliage and even more impressed when they began to flower.
However, winter followed autumn and the foliage began to turn yellow and eventually brown and finally withered completely.
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As promised, here are a couple pics of my sedums. The top is 'Neon' - it is a patch near my front door and the one that gets regularly pummeled by newspapers flung at it. Still holds up pretty well, nice bright foliage in a part shade spot. When its blooms open in a week or so, they will be bright pink. The bottom pic is 'Autumn Joy.' This patch is near the downspout off my sun room and in theory would get a lot more sun than the 'Neon' but the Caryopteris and Russian Sage next to have grown into monsters and block most of the direct rays. It is just about to bloom. . . . 
