Elizabeth Red Carpet Sedum Plant

Unlike some sedum cultivars red carpet may be grown from seed.

Elizabeth red carpet sedum plant.

Sedum spurium phedimus spurius elizabeth. Sedum spurium elizabeth growing conditions. An easy ground cover that brightens up a garden with rich red and copper tones. Full sun and well drained soil.

Cut a leaf from a healthy sedum with about 1 2 of stem and plant the stem with the leaf above soil. The foliage is a dark red with green and produces a wonderful fall color. This forgiving spreader tolerates rocky soil full sun drought and hard frosts. Plants are evergreen in warm winter climates.

Elizabeth has red blooms that flower from may to september. Native to north america. Sedum spurium red carpet red carpet aka elizabeth stonecrop red tinged foliage keeps its color throughout the growing season then turns deep burgundy in fall winter. Sedum spurium elizabeth is a vigorous and effective groundcover.

Butterflies are attracted to the small red star shaped flowers occurring late spring through early summer. Elizabeth is a charming variety that offers red touched blue green foliage that turns red in fall. It shows its best colors when moderately stressed by full sun and or cold weather. It blooms in late summer with tiny pink star shaped flowers.

Sedum elizabeth needs to be planted in full sun in well drained soil. With a height of 3 4 and a spread of 24 its red blooms flower from may to september sedum elizabeth needs to be planted in full sun in well drained soil. To 4 inches tall. It offers red blooms throughout the summer.

Plants spread easily root where nodes touch the ground. It will tolerate most soil types and is drought resistant. In the colder months pink tones begin to appear in the foliage and by mid winter dark magenta rosettes are set. Prostrate mats of bronze foliage are topped by pinkish red flowers.

The sedum elizabeth sedum spurium also known as sedum red carpet is a short ground cover that is a little different from the rest. The emerging foliage is burgundy in spring retains a reddish edge in summer turns a delicious deep red in fall. The red carpet sedum has ground hugging form and attractive small succulent rounded foliage. Seasonably available while supplies last.

Easily propagated by cuttings or division.