These varieties of sedum offer many colors and sizes to suit your garden.
Conserve water in the garden with beautifulsedum plants, also known as stonecrops.
These drought-tolerant plants are available in myriad shapes, colors, and sizes.
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This prolific bloomer looks great on its own or as a groundcover under tallersun-loving perennials.
This carpet-forming perennial works as awalkable groundcoverthat can withstand light foot traffic.
Try it alongborder fronts, rock gardens, walkways, or atop rock walls.
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Tiny yellow-green flowers appear in summer but take a backseat to the foliage.
Add this plant to yoursucculent container garden, where its small leaves will look beautiful spilling over the sides.
Its sage green foliage with white borders makes this plant a must-try, eye-catching addition to borders or containers.
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It blooms in late summer to early fall with clusters of beautiful pink and white flowers.
It offers silvery foliage and yellow flowers in summer.
Bees and butterflies love its pink flowers, making this species perfect forpollinator gardens.
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It’s abeautiful groundcoverwith deep green leaves and golden-yellow flowers in late summer.
This plant needs asmuch sun as you’re able to give it.
Brighter light intensities bring out deeper colors in the leaves and promote better flowering.
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Star-shaped yellow flowers appear in the summer.
Each green leaf is edged in pink and white.
Tiny, star-shaped, pink flowers emerge in late spring to midsummer.
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Its pinkish-purple flowers bloom from midsummer into autumn.
Consider planting it in border fronts,sloped areas, or containers.
The plant has a bristly appearance thanks to a distinctive translucent bump at the end of each leaf.
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It erupts in a mass ofyellow bloomsin the summer.
Its yellow star-shaped flowers emerge in the summer.
Thisdrought-resistant perennialis one of the few sedums thatwill thrive in clay soil.
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Its large clusters of tiny, starry flowers emerge pink in late summer, drawing all kinds of pollinators.
The blooms gradually change to a deeprose-red shadeand finally turn to coppery-rust in autumn.
The plant’s gray-green succulent leaves look lush all summer.
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Pink flowers appear above the foliage in the fall.
Name:Sedum spurium’Elizabeth'
Frequently Asked Questions
There are 400 known varieties of sedum.
Each species has unique characteristics and sizes, ranging from low-growing groundcovers to tall, upright plants.
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None of the known species of sedum poses any toxic danger to people or pets.
It’s safe to plant anywhere in your garden.
This is a drought-tolerant succulent that doesn’t need much water once it is established.
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However, it needs to be kept moist with regular watering for the first few weeks after planting.
Groundcover varieties of sedum will fill in areas quickly and suppress weeds.
However, even though some varieties can spread rapidly, they are generally not considered invasive.
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If you gotta remove them, it can be done easily.
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