Our local Home Depot has the most gorgeous, large plants for ten dollars!
Please share!
Thanks.
Anyone have success with Autumn Joy sedum?
This will start my third summer with it. It is beautiful right now with the rossette greenery. In the fall it blooms and then the bloom turns a reddish/orange. Every place it breaks of there is a new plant. and the momma plant never looks different. absolutely no care whatever. Will try to get a picture of it growing around the small trunk of my japanese blood maple. Magic.
Don't hesitate, get it. I'm in the Dallas area and it dies back after the first freeze but comes right back.
Christi
They propagate very, very easy. Just stick a piece in the ground and it grows. If I saw this for 10 dollars my first instinct would be to look around for broken pieces. Or, If you are going to an RU, ask for some. Many people grow them. I have a black and purple, pink blooming sport called Black Jack that is stunning. If you come to the Arlington RU, remind me and I'll bring you one.
Well, of course, Lynn. Still not used to the trade thing. I would be more than happy to send you a cutting. It might even sprout another in the envelope.
Christi
I have the plain ole common variety Autumn Joy growing in an old bucket. Does well with little moisture. If you try some, you will be hooked!
Thank you! I think I'm going to have trouble going to sleep in anticipation of going to Home Depot. Those plants were gorgeous!
Pod is right about the moisture, I think they can actually rot with too much moisture during the hottest part of the Summer.
Just wait, Jo. You going to be hooked once you see all the different varieties of upright sedums. They are all stunning.
Mamajack gave me a stem off of a variegated upright sedum I have it rooting now. I don't know the name. Mamajack...you listening?
It's a great plant, but don't plant it where it might get abused. My boys hit one of mine with a soccer ball. Most of it broke off. (I didn't know I could start new plants from the top - that would have made me happier at the time.) The plant survived but didn't bloom in the fall. Mine also gets a little leggy at the bottom, but I have it planted in afternoon shade.
Over the past 2 springs my neighbor and best friend let me go pull off whatever I wanted from her well grown bunch and stick'em my garden. Now, I have a nice patch growing in, free of charge and almost no work. Can't beat that. :)
Somehow, I ended up with a sedum at last October's swap, and I also have a Blackjack Sedum that I thought I had lost last year, but It came back and is looking mighty fine.
I like the foliage of sedum, but I find it doesn't seem to bloom for very long. Maybe I need a bigger bed of it, or what do you have it growing near to compliment it?
Bronc, you were luckier than me, I don't see any signs of life from Cocoa's BJ sedum.
'Autumn Joy' does well here in my zone. All they requirements are: sun, lean soil, drought tolerant and extremely easy to propagate to increase in our garden. Just break them in pieces and stick them in the ground and watch them grow likes there is no tomorrow.
Hiya Pod, and Lou.
Kim
Hey ~ Kim! Don't you wish all the plants were this easy? 8 )
Hi Pod, don't we ALL wish? lol,lol. How did you fair from the storm today? Around 4pm, our family were huddling down the basement with our furkids and thinking we were going to kiss our hinnies' goodbye. It was scary!
Today wasn't bad here, just two & a half inches of rain. So sorry it was rough on your end. Sunday was our baddie. We received from 12 to 19 inches of rain in less than 10 hours. Major flooding with high water rescues, one fatality. Homes on pier and beam, mobile homes and storage buildings washed down stream. Pretty grim although we personally didn't have more than washing.
I was fascinated to watch plants literally grow during that rain. Things are really forming blooms as a result.
And, back on the Autumn Joy thread, I need to make sure my rusty bucket of these plants isn't waterlogged.
Feast or famine on the water here...
Yup, after all the research we did on drought tolerance plants for this growing year....look at what we get. Anyhooo, it's nice to see you posting. I do miss seeing your posting among us in MidSouth. Keep touch.
Good gracious 12-19 inches of rain in matter of hours!!! Take care, and keep safe everyone.
The Ominous sky gave way to this mysty view around sunset hours in our neck of the woods. All the sedums are doing fine however. lol.
Kim
Pretty picture Kim ~ you know this time of year it is hard to make it around to all the "favorite forums". Glad to see you in Texas!
I have Autumn Joy and I'm going to the RU in CS. If anybody wants some, just let me know. I never thought to put it on my trade list.
Mine came back from the dead this spring! It also has LOTS of little babies! Will be moving it to it's permanent location soon.
Autumn Joy Sedum grows well here in Kerrville as well. Ditto on the moisture - - - it likes very little.
FYI - - - the deer here like to eat this one! I keep it close to the house and spritz it with Liquid Fence. Kathy
Could one of you please tell me if this a Autumn Joy?
My MIL gave it to me last Sat. after thinning hers. She told me it was a Hen and Chick.
Thanks yall
It certainly favors the Autumn Joy Sedum. Have you seen the blooms on her plant?
That's the confusing part- I have never seen hers bloom and she didn't tell me it did. She thinks it's Hen and Chicks:) so I thought it was till someone told me it wasn't?
Confusing!!
Mine doesn't bloom till later in summer/fall. It needs neglect and low water requirements. I keep it potted in an old rusty pail. Passalong plants get tagged with common but wrong names sometimes. It may surprise you with blooms.
My autumn joy thrives on neglect. I have some in the ground in dappled shade most of the day, some in full sun all day and one in a pot that never gets fertilized, water only from God and only a little morning sun. They die down for the winter and come back every spring and bloom in the fall or when it gets cool. Last year I guess because the weather never really got hot mine bloomed early and kept blooming.
ejennings, you have autumn joy---not hen and chicks. It does die completely at the first cold night in the fall. grows a little all winter and goes crazy in the spring. blooms sort of pink for a while and then a beautiful rusty red in the fall. I have 4 other kinds of sedum and don't know the names of any of them. One of my favorite "throw it at the ground and run" plants. No care whatsoever.
This big ball has gotten so big it appears the Japanese Maple is growing out of it.
To the right is another that is growing out an old iron tea kettle. If a piece breaks off, it just roots itself somewhere else.
Christi
Yours certainly looks like it will grow into an upright sedum, about two feet tall. I tend to think of hens and chicks as low ground hugging rosettes, also known as sempervivum. But I've heard people use the name hen and chicks as a catch all phrase for a lot of succulents. They're all pretty..that's what really counts.lol
LouC, I think anything could grow at your house! Those rocks look bigger than they did last time I was over there!! (~;
hahahaha. It is the dirt from Living Technologies.
I can assure you I have no plan for anything. Just happened is indeed the truth.
Christi
Actually I believe in this case I planted it in the tea kettle and it broke off and migrated under the tree by itself. "Ain't" nature great.
I'm anxious to see what kind of blooms. thanks for the help.
I've tried growing Autumn Joy twice in Bellaire in a raised bed, full sun, etc. I've had absolutely no luck at all with them! I think our heavy rains did them in. I find most sedums really problematical here, although I do have an exterior dish garden of various sedum planted in an extremely fast-draining medium on top of an ornamental post. They are struggling after all the rain this winter.
Leslie
LeslieT ~ that is why I opted for a rusty bucket. I can put in under cover as needed. It's not just moisture but the occasional FLOODS! lol
Jo there is no reason to buy Autumn Joy ... I have all you want! :) Usually I bring bucket loads to the swap, but didn't go out front.
Thanks so much, but I did buy one, and if it "takes," then I'll have my own supply for cuttings. :)
Jo
That you will! ... and if you put it the ground Jo, you will have more than cuttings, you will have a bunch of bare roots too. lol