Sedum spathulifolium 'Purpureum'
Crassulaceae
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Habitat:
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sunny, stony places
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Flowering:
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summer
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Size:
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30
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10
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Soil:
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gritty
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Sedum spathulifolium `Purpureum`
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Price
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£3.00
(9 cm pot)
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Order code:
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SSW-9
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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.
Sedum spathulifolium 'Purpureum' is a variety in which the mats of glaucous grey leaves become purple red, giving a striking tri-coloured effect when the yellow flowers are out - but in my view it is more attractive and restrained at other times.
Other related plants:
Dense hummocks of neat rosettes of glaucous, bue-grey leaves.
Succulent golden foliage and yellow flowers.
Fleshy, purplish grey leaves and rosy red flowers.
Rosettes of grey green leaves with stems of pinkish red flowers.
Golden, starry flowers, evergreen fleshy foliage.
Fleshy, almost white leaves and golden yellow flowers on red stems.
Dark red foliage with heads of deep reddish pink starry flowers.
Dark red and green, mat-forming evergreen perennial with pink starry flowers.
Mat forming ground cover with green, white and red leaves; pink flowers.
Succulent, evergreen leaves darkening to burgundy purple; pink flowers.
Succulent green foliage and golden yellow starry flowers.