Plant Spotlight of the week: Stonecrop
Each year in the spring as I watch these amazing plants emerge in perfect hemispheres of heavily textured lush foliage, I am reminded of what stellar season long performance these large sedums provide.
Fairly pest-free, Autumn Joy Sedum and the many other good varieties display clean foliage and a very neat mounded growth habit of 18″ to 30″ in height. The whole summer long stonecrop stands out by virtue of its distinctive thick rounded leaves and in fall beautiful amber, rose, pink, purple or reddish flower heads, and offers excellent stand-ability throughout a Minnesota winter. They are almost as valuable for their winter interest as for what they add to the spring, summer and fall garden.
Check out the many other varieties of perennials listed on our Perennials page.
