The Sedum genus known as stonecrops, comprises 400 to 500 species, many of which are low-growing and well-suited for use as ground cover. Creeping sedum varieties quickly spread, reaching heights of ...

Trying to choose the best types of sedums for sustainable gardening is enough to make you feel like a kid in a candy shop. Whether sprawled like carpets of color amidst rocks or bobbling delicately ...

Whether you're looking for a ground cover plant to suppress weeds, want to make your flower beds more attractive, or fill the ...

What: Sedum cauticola “Lidakense,” with the common name stonecrop, is an excellent groundcover plant, particularly for hot, dry sites with poor soil. This variety forms a flat, dense mat of blue-gray ...

It is lemon season in the South and The Garden Guy couldn’t be happier. This lemon is not the sweet and tart kind, however. Spring is the ideal season for Lemon Coral sedum. This succulent knows no ...

Cut sedum back in spring, trim in early summer, and clean up in fall. Skip pruning in mid-summer and winter to avoid stressing the plant. Pruning keeps sedum strong, compact, and blooming well. Sedum ...

If you are designing mixed containers this year for the porch, patio or deck, then by all means consider the little sedum or stonecrop from Mexico. The botanical name is Sedum mexicanum and it couples ...

What: The diminutive succulent leaves of Oregon stonecrop are bright green — sometimes with a cherry red to burgundy blush — with golden yellow flowers on stems 2 to 6 inches tall. The evergreen ...

I visited a stand of bristlecone pines at tree line on Mount Evans several summers ago, in early July. Bristlecone and limber pines at tree line evoke reverence, for some survive for more than ...