Outdoor spaces that are dull can become beautiful with splashy plants. To make your yard look better, grow these bright stonecrop sedums.
Start with this Top 10 list to grow lots of sedums! Again, like other plants, sedums do well in poor soil and can even handle drought once they are established. For most, gravelly, well-drained soil in full sun is the best place to grow. Put stonecrop plants in places where it won’t get wet when it rains.
1. Cape Blanco Stonecrop
The brilliant silver-blue leaves of Cape Blanco make any yard or container arrangement shine. This is a type of a native stonecrop plant that blooms with tiny yellow flowers in the summer. It can cover up to 2 feet of ground.
This is why we love it: The shiny leaves really stand out because of their colour, and they can look like checkers on top of black mondo grass (Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’).
2. Petite Bicolor Crassula
This cute choice has the tiniest flowers and looks great on its own or in a mixed container. Bring it inside for the winter if you live somewhere that isn’t very cold. When star-shaped pink flowers bloom in the summer and early autumn, bees and butterflies will come in droves.
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3. Weihenstephaner Gold Orange Stonecrop
This plant has 6-inch-tall olive-green leaves that look great with its pink stems and yellow flowers that are good for wildlife. Because it trails up to 16 inches, it can be used in hanging baskets or as a ground cover. It can also handle game and drought.
4. Evergreen Orpine
Vertical whorls of bluish-green rosettes make your rock garden, border, or pots more interesting, and the smaller leaves make them stand out. This sedum can grow up to 10 inches tall and can handle being in poor soil.
5. Coral Carpet Sedum
The ground-hugging chameleon starts out as coral, then turns dark green in the summer, and finally turns bright red in the autumn and winter. The plant can also handle some foot traffic, so feel free to put it between pavers or next to paths.
6. Angelina Creeping Sedum
Angelina is a sedum with spruce-like leaves that quickly turns into a beautiful gold carpet with pumpkin-colored accents just in time for fall. It grows into an evergreen mat that is 1 to 2 feet wide and 4 to 6 inches high. Grow as a ground plant and with spring bulbs that like to be in the sun.
7. Autumn Fire Sedum
Autumn Fire is a strong plant for the garden that stands tall, loves sun, and is good for pollinators. It looks great in a mixed border with bigger perennials and trees. If you leave the flower heads out all winter, they will feed birds and look beautiful, especially if they get snow on them.
8. Pink Form Southern Stonecrop
This plant has evergreen leaves that look like groups of small roses. In warmer weather, the leaves turn pink, and in cooler weather, they stay blue-green. It’ll get about a foot big.
9. Spanish Blue Select Stonecrop
This mat-former has blue stems that are straight up and look like pine needles. Strong to grow, it will get about 18 inches wide and 6 inches high, whether it’s in the ground or spilling out of a pot.
10. Voodoo Stonecrop
This easy-going sedum pick will give your yard depth and drama. This trailing, hardy plant stays a bright red colour all year and can cover up to 2 feet in width. Bugs like bees and butterflies come to the bright pink flowers in the summer.