Sedum Red Carpet Ground Cover

Leaves are attractive throughout the growing season.

Sedum red carpet ground cover. Red carpet is an evergreen ground cover that grows 3 4 tall spreads to 18 24 wide. Leaves turn deep burgundy in fall winter. 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. Makinoi a green leaved species and its golden cultivar s.

Makinoi ogon tolerate shade and more moisture than others. Reflexum blue spruce is blue gray. While sedum prefers full sun s. Our fully grown sedum carpet for green roofs comes as a premium grade.

Spurium red carpet display red tinged leaves and s. A lovely vigorous ground cover of green foliage that blushes deep rose in the summer. This forgiving colorful spreader can transform large areas of poor soil into lush swathes of color. Tiny star shaped red flowers bloom infrequently in late spring to mid summer.

Intolerant of wet soils. However because the stems are tender and easily damaged the plant doesn t tolerate foot traffic. Sedum spurium red carpet growing and maintenance tips prefers average to dry well drained soil in full sun. Also called stonecrop sedum plants often feature evergreen foliage.

Red carpet is a low mat forming red leafed sedum or stonecrop. Sedum spurium now phedimus spurius red carpet. Excellent as a perennial border in rock gardens or as a groundcover or container plant. Red tinged foliage keeps its color throughout the growing season then turns deep burgundy in fall winter.

Quality sedum matting with 6 10 sedum species for beautiful living roofs. Rupestre angelina has spiky golden foliage tinted with red and orange. Occasional deep carmine red flowers. Red carpet stonecrop sedum spurium red carpet is a creeping red sedum and.

Propagate by seed and cuttings although division seems to be the easiest for most. 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. 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. 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.

Sedum plants sedum spp include many creeping varieties that provide low maintenance ground cover in dry poor quality soil where few other plants survive. It produces masses of tiny pink blooms each summer and looks attractive when planted in large drifts.