Sedum Red Carpet Ground Cover
It produces masses of tiny pink blooms each summer and looks attractive when planted in large drifts.
Sedum red carpet ground cover. Makinoi ogon tolerate shade and more moisture than others. Rupestre angelina has spiky golden foliage tinted with red and orange. But there are also several varieties of low growing sedum that are very good as ground covers in hot dry areas of a landscape where turfgrass and other plants struggle to survive. Red carpet is a low mat forming red leafed sedum or stonecrop.
Leaves are attractive throughout the growing season. Quality sedum matting with 6 10 sedum species for beautiful living roofs. Tiny star shaped red flowers bloom infrequently in late spring to mid summer. Red carpet is an evergreen ground cover that grows 3 4 tall spreads to 18 24 wide.
Reflexum blue spruce is blue gray. Excellent as a perennial border in rock gardens or as a groundcover or container plant. A lovely vigorous ground cover of green foliage that blushes deep rose in the summer. Propagate by seed and cuttings although division seems to be the easiest for most.
Makinoi a green leaved species and its golden cultivar s. Sedum spurium red carpet growing and maintenance tips prefers average to dry well drained soil in full sun. Useful for small gardens and green roofs. Spurium red carpet display red tinged leaves and s.
This forgiving colorful spreader can transform large areas of poor soil into lush swathes of color. Also called stonecrop sedum plants often feature evergreen foliage. Sedum spurium commonly called caucasian stonecrop or two row stonecrop is a low growing sprawling mat forming sedum or stonecrop that is commonly grown as a ground cover it is native to the caucusus. This is an evergreen plant that typically rises only 3 6 tall but spreads to 18 24 wide by creeping branching stems that easily root at the nodes.
Occasional deep carmine red flowers. Leaves turn deep burgundy in fall winter. Our fully grown sedum carpet for green roofs comes as a premium grade. Red carpet sedum is a tough durable plant that makes an effective ground cover.
Sedum spurium now phedimus spurius red carpet. While sedum prefers full sun s. Many gardeners are familiar with upright varieties of sedum such as sedum autumn joy as excellent plants for late season color in the dry hot days of late summer and early autumn. Sedum spurium red carpet red carpet aka elizabeth stonecrop.
However because the stems are tender and easily damaged the plant doesn t tolerate foot traffic. Sedum plants sedum spp include many creeping varieties that provide low maintenance ground cover in dry poor quality soil where few other plants survive.