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If you’re looking for a
tough, durable group of perennials that will take the heat and dryness of
the sun, yet tolerate some shade as well, I’ve got the perfect group for
you.
Sedum…is also known as
Stonecrop. These are fleshy, succulent plants that love the sunny rock
garden or border…but can also put up with a little shade. Sedums offer a
wide array of foliage types and colors, as well as different types of
clusters of starry flowers in the summer as well as plants that stay low as
ground covers, to those that can reach 18-24 inches.
Here’s Sedum Dragons
Blood…low mats of leaves with showy summer flowers on top… flowers of
whites, pinks and reds
Sedum Angelina…wonderful
chartreuse needle like foliage and a real stand out ground cover…tough and
quick to cover
Sedum kamtschaticum…I
call this one the sun pachysandra…same look but loves the sun…and you get
these wonderful summer flowers…it’s also available in a variegated
leaf…tough, durable and quick to fill as a ground cover.
And for more upright
growing sedum, look at Sedum Autumn Joy…big succulent green foliage…a late
summer bloomer with large flower clusters starting a creamy ivory, turning a
salmon pink and eventually turning a bronzy red…truly a great fall show
And here’s Sedum Black
Jack…similar in growth habit to the Autumn Joy, but this sedum has wonderful
greenish purple foliage that eventually turns a deep purple color that you’d
swear was actually black! And to top it all off, Black Jack supports a
great show of brilliantly colored pink flowers late summer and fall.
There are so many
selections available today in the sedum family. Get out to your local
garden stores and check them out. In the ground or in containers, sedums
are one tough group of perennials. |
