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Sedum sieboldii |
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Common name |
October daphne |
Family |
crassulaceae |
Life cycle |
perennial |
Flowers |
pink (autumn) |
Size |
4" |
Light |
full sun |
Cultural notes |
well-drained soil |
My favorite small sedum (stonecrop). The foliage is attractive year-round, succulent pink-margined blue-green pads staying low to the ground. The flowers don't appear until well into autumn, for a great late-season point of interest. Unlike most small sedums, this is not a creeper, instead sending out above-ground stems from the same base every year. So it's not a fast spreader – we still have the same two smallish plants that have hung out in our rock garden for many years, although you can see in the photos here that they have grown some over time. I recently tried to propagate them by cuttings, which seems like it was probably successful (I'll hold off on claiming success until next spring).
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| Quite charming even when not in bloom |
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| and in bud (early October) |
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| and when the fruits develop in November |
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
Visitors to this page have left the following commentsLois | Jun 15, 2009 | Wonderful web pages! Can you tell me the name of the plant pictured at the top left of this page? Thank you! At the moment, it's Trillium sessile - but I rotate them frequently, so it won't be there much longer. |
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