Sedum ewersii CC5288

Crassulaceae

Sedums (stonecrops) are easy plants with succulent foliage, often brightly coloured, either all year or at certain seasons. In this group are the small varieties, suitable for rock gardens, raised beds and troughs. There are clusters of starry flowers, often yellow, but there are also pink and white ones.

		Rhodiola pachyclados forms dense hummocks of really neat rosettes, each with many small, blue-grey. It has starry white flowers with yellow anthers, but it is the foliage that is the main attraction.
		Sedum album 'Coral Carpet' has yellow flowers that grow from vibrant gold succulent foliage.
		Sedum 'Bertram Anderson' is an excellent plant for a sunny, well-drained place, with its purplish grey leaves perfectly matched to the deep rosy pink flowers, which are produced in great abundance from early autumn.
		Sedum cauticola 'Coca-Cola' has silver-grey ovate foliage and masses of bright pink flowers.
		Sedum middendorfianum is an east Asian species, sometimes included in Sedum kamtschaticum, with narrow, grey-green leaves, straight-sided but wavy at the end, which have a reddish hue when they grow in the spring. The flowers come in tight clusters are the ends of the stems, golden yellow.
		Sedum oreganum has evergreen, spoon-shaped green leaves which become dark red in summer and autumn. Flat panicles of golden, starry flowers are produced in summer.
		Sedum spathulifolium 'Aureum' has a golden yellow or orange flush to the mats of glaucous grey leaves, which looks good all the year, and goes well with the yellow flowers. It is less vigorous than other varieties of this species.
		Sedum spathulifolium 'Capo Blanco' is a fine form, which makes a hummock of tight rosettes of fleshy leaves, so covered in a waxy bloom that they appear to be almost white. It would be well worth having for this characteristic alone, but in the summer it produces a mass of golden yellow flowers, and also shows red colouring on the lower parts of the stems.
		Sedum spurium 'Dragon's Blood' is an extremely easy plant for a rock garden or raised bed, but it equally rewarding. The spreading stems have fleshy, red leaves (presumably the colour of dragons' blood - although I thought that was black), and the heads of many small, starry, reddish pink flowers stand out against this background.
		Sedum spurium 'Ruby Mantle' makes mats of dark red and green evergreen leaves.
		Sedum spurium 'Tricolor' is a mat forming ground cover plant with green, white and red leaves. Pink flowers in late summer.
		Sedum 'Vera Jameson' has a spreading habit with succulent bluish, purple leaves, which darken to burgundy-purple. Pink flowers appear in summer.
		Sedum 'Weihenstephaner Gold' has low-growing rosettes of mid-green leaves, in summer thick with golden yellow, starry flowers.