The varied, versatile group of plants forms the botanical type of sedum. Sedum includes about 400 species that can be divided into two groups.One is made up of low species that grow to a height of no more than 20 centimeters
and usually bloom in June and July.Tall sedum plants with 20-60 centimeters long shoots, which are classified as typical flowering plants in late summer and autumn, look completely different.
Sedum plants are ideal ground cover plants. They have very low requirements and are extremely resistant to harsh environmental conditions. They are perfect, for example, for greening roofs, where the life of plants is hindered not only by the insufficient amount of soil, but also by full sunlight and drying winds.Not only their flowers are colorful. The leaves are also decorated in various shades of green, they can be yellow, red, dark brown and silver-gray.
Tall sedum plants calm the bedding. Their straight stems and flat, round inflorescences are in contrast to the tiny flowers and leaves of asters and delicate blades of grass. The most popular are the sedum varieties Sedum telephium and the magnificent Sedum spectabile.
Their advantage is not only the late flowers, which beautify the garden in September
and October.In spring, the picturesque leaf rosettes create dense, hemispherical cushions.
During the summer, inflorescence shoots end with umbels composed of adjacent light green buds.After flowering, brown seed heads on dried shoots stay stiffly in the bed for many winter weeks, often decorated with white snow caps.
Sedum plants are succulents from the coarse family. Their common feature is fleshy, flat or roller-shaped leaves.Together with the shoots, they have the ability to accumulate water.Therefore, they cope very well in dry places
and very warm. They like loose, barren soil warmed by the sun's rays most of the day.
They will easily settle in places that other plants avoid, such as gaps between slabs or cobblestones on a paved surface, a gravel bed, dry walls, a rock garden or corners covered with a roof eaves.Here sedum plants can survive long periods of summer heat without watering.In contrast, excess moisture is harmful and can cause shoots to rot.
Desert conditions suit almost all sedum. Other likes are, among others Caucasian Sedum Sedum spurium and Kamchatka Sedum Sedum kamtschaticum.Both low species are also developing very well
in shaded places with damp surfaces.
Fertile soil is dangerous for sedum plants. Shoots of highly nourished tall species are too long and soft.Under the weight of the inflorescences, they bend and become easy prey for the voracious swollen.We provide sedum plants with the best living conditions by loosening the heavy clay-loam soil with a solid addition of not too thick gravel or grit. Plants will thank us with wonderful flowering for many years.
