Autumn joy sedum3/23/2023 They look particularly attractive with Asters, Solidago (Ornamental Golden rods), Boltonias and Ornamental Grasses. Undemanding, not aggressive, with fleshy, drought resistant foliage and lovely domed flowerheads packed with a profusion of tiny starry flowers, opening to white, pink or red blossoms in late summer or early fall, they are a popular attraction to butterflies. Members of the genus Hylotelephium, border sedums are essential beauties for the late season garden and deserve a spot in gravel gardens. Low maintenance, this Sedum forgives neglect!.Drought and heat tolerant once established, it is disease resistant!.Flowers are attractive to bees, hummingbirds and butterflies and excellent as cut flowers.Tolerates very light shade and poor soils. Best grown in full sun, in average, dry to medium moisture, well-drained soils.Effective when planted en masse or in groups. Provides color and contrast to beds, borders or rock garden at a time when most plants have stopped blooming.Both foliage and dead inflorescences will remain attractive through winter, providing some additional interest.Gradually, these densely clustered buds will reveal tiny, star-like soft raspberry pink flowers in mid to late summer, which will softly change to rich rose and then coppery-rust in the fall as they die. Easy to grow, this standout perennial forms a 2 feet tall and wide (60 cm) clump of thick, fleshy blue-green foliage topped with flower buds resembling broccoli. Twice granted the Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society.Vigorous, hardy, carefree, good-looking, with a season of interest lasting more than 6 months from early summer until well into winter, who could resist? Award-winner Sedum 'Herbstfreude' or 'Autumn Joy' in English is probably one of the best of all border sedums.
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