Name: Common name~ Stonecrop
Description: Sedum are succulent-leaved plants with large flat flowerheads. Their leaves often have a bluey-grey tint to them, and are attractively fleshy, the flowerheads are shaped like umbrellas. Each flower has a papery case around it, giving an interesting texture to the flowerhead.
Origin: Native to Asia, they have been cultivated in the UK since 1596, originally for their healing properties rather than their ornamental value.
Colour: Shades of pinky-brown, with light green stems; and there is a rarer purply-brown form with brown stems.
Availability: June to October
Varieties: The variety shown here is Sedum spectabile which means "worth seeing". Gardeners may be familiar with relatives of this plant, Sedum flowers naturally towards the end of the year, providing a month's worth of welcome colour in grey autumn months.
Description: Sedum are succulent-leaved plants with large flat flowerheads. Their leaves often have a bluey-grey tint to them, and are attractively fleshy, the flowerheads are shaped like umbrellas. Each flower has a papery case around it, giving an interesting texture to the flowerhead.
Origin: Native to Asia, they have been cultivated in the UK since 1596, originally for their healing properties rather than their ornamental value.
Colour: Shades of pinky-brown, with light green stems; and there is a rarer purply-brown form with brown stems.
Availability: June to October
Varieties: The variety shown here is Sedum spectabile which means "worth seeing". Gardeners may be familiar with relatives of this plant, Sedum flowers naturally towards the end of the year, providing a month's worth of welcome colour in grey autumn months.
Taken from flowers.org.uk
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