Guests Will Gravitate to Your Creeping Red Sedum
The dark green needle type leaves sometimes will turn a golden yellow which should not be mistaken for overwatering or under watering. With much attentiveness, you will eventually be able to determine the difference between a sickly plant and a healthy one. Your first plantings may seem slow to grow.
Given time these 'creeping' sun lovers will each take up a foot of the ground making them ideal as a ground cover. Strategically placed, you can cover up bare areas in just a few months. Creeping Red sedum is a wonderful contrast to plain 'ole green yards. They are a boost of color to any yellow or white themed garden, too.
Should you find that your sedum is not doing so well in the full sun it may be that they were not originally grown in this condition. Relocate them to another area where they will receive partial sun, and give them a little more water than you have been to nurse them back to health.
Not all gardeners grow them the same way. Try growing creeping red sedum from seed in full sun to you will have a hearty plant for your sunny areas. These prickly, but not hurtful, flowers may grow up to six inches high in excellent conditions. Typically they grow on average around four inches high. Try not to be disappointed if they are not as showy the first year you plant them. Like many other plants, red sedum takes some time to get established.
According to Wayside Gardens and Burgess Seed and Plant Company, these Northern plants will grow in zones 3 - 9 and bloom from June through September. Well drained soil conditions are a must for these showy sedum.
Sedum is a great plant to grow on sloping areas of your yard since they have a great root system. They especially like growing among rocky terrain. Creeping red sedum makes for a good ground cover under trees where grass has a difficult time trying to grow.
Obviously sedum comes in many other colors besides red. There are green, light green, yellow, orange, blue, purple and white sedums. Another color that is fun to grow is the pink one.
Sources:
Personal Experience,
http://www.perennials.com/seeplant.html?item=1.485.120,
http://www.bloomindesigns.com/product/WVERBENACREEP/VERBENA_peruviana_Creeping_Red__Flat.html,
http://home.howstuffworks.com/sedum.htm
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- They can be easily overwatered.
- Your first plantings may seem slow to grow.
- Sedum is a great plant to grow on sloping areas of your yard.
1 Comments
Post a CommentI know creeping red sedum is a plant...but the way you phrased it in the title--ok I'm a little perverted. :-P However this was a great article! (I pray ye are laughing!)