Gardeners prize sedums , also known as stonecrops , for their drought allowance and shoal - rooted tendencies . These two equipment characteristic make the low - grow sedum type ideal for roof or rock gardens . Both the tall and broken sedums are useful plant for xeriscaping , which bank on piss conservation . confer with your nursery for growing conditions specific to each of the many usable type of sedum . As a ecumenical rule , these succulent choose wry , stony soil and get well in sun or part shade .

Autumn Joy

The sedum spectabile cultivar Autumn Joy , one of the improbable sedum , is much esteem for its subtle colors and the charm it total to fall gardens . When landscape option seem to be limited to chrysanthemums and pumpkins , Autumn Joy starts off with short pink blooms that change into a well-favored crimson - browned by time of year ’s end . Even before it bloom in the fall , however , this sedum brings moderate acme ( it grows about 18 inches tall ) and run into foliage to the garden . Many nurseryman refrain from deadheading this sedum , pass on its seed promontory for winter interest . Two related cultivars , " Meteor " and " brainy , " take over standardised flat - headed flower but stay a dusky pink all season .

Vera Jameson

The University of Wyoming dubs the sedum hybrid Vera Jameson as the best of the improbable sedum . Its sarcoid leaves lean more toward the purpleness than the characteristic amobarbital sodium of many other sedum , which marry well with its " twilight pinkish flowers . "

October Daphne

Another autumnal sedum , October Daphne ( sedum sieboldii ) , boasts fleshy dreary leave and , during the fall , hot pink efflorescence at the border of its branch . The plant grows about six column inch marvelous .

Hens-and-Chickens

Perhaps the most renowned phallus of the sedum family , the succulent Hens - and - Chickens earns its name by producing both tall and short rosettes of fleshy leaves in intricate , low - lying patterns . The translation of its botanic name , sempervivum tectorum–“Live everlastingly on the roof”–attests to its utility in roof gardens . These sedums , sometimes called houseleeks , also make sound houseplant or rock garden features .

Gold Moss

Sedum Akko , or gold moss , make an ideal ground binding for modest blank space , including between pave pit and among the careen of a rock garden . The plants bloom with flyspeck icteric efflorescence . Garden writer Barbara Damrosch prizes its creep habit , while the University of Wyoming warns it may reseed too prolifically for some nurseryman ' tastes .

Dragon’s Blood

This low - growing , gym mat - forming sedum thrives in rock garden and other heat - retaining places . In fact , both the foliation and efflorescence of sedum spurium turn up the volume the more they broil in the sunlight . The flora blooms violent in recent summertime , with the flowers intensifying into an orange - bolshy in the fall . The plant broadcast quickly .

Blue Spruce

The dry land cover sedum rupestre Blue Spruce offer the characteristic blue leaves of the specie . It wear chickenhearted blossom .

Orange Stonecrop

Somewhere between a primer cover and a border plant , S. kamtschaticum bursts into orange - yellow bloom in tardy summer . Its leafage run toward the green rather than blue .

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