Flowering Sedum Roof

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Flowering sedum roof.

Incredibly hardy this drought resistant sedum is a favourite for any green roof. A graceful and charming plant sedum sieboldii offers blue green leaves that are often tinted purple. In conditions where many other plants perish the widow s cross thrives. Sedum plants are thick leaved drought resistant plants of the family crassulaceae and are sometimes referred to as stonecrops.

No why we love it. Sedum pulchellum flower head is made up of lots of tiny pink star shaped flowers. Showy stonecrop the taller plants in the genus sedum are popular garden plants that are extremely easy to grow although lovely sedums are often taken for granted in the garden partly because they don t bloom until the fall but also because they require so little care from the gardener. Leaves are alternate oblanceolate or elliptic rounded to obtuse up to 0 5 inch 1 3 cm long and up 0 2 inch 0 5 cm wide.

Sedum sieboldii growing conditions. For its evergreen foliage that turns pink in winter. To 4 inches tall zones. Go straight to purple roof green roof modeler.

Full sun and well drained soil size. Flowering stems are branched up to 6 inches 15 cm tall. Sedum plants come in a wide variety of heights colors and forms. Flowers are star shaped and yellow in color.

There are about 400 species of sedums with a wonderful variety of colors shapes growth rates flowering season and evapotranspiration rates. They are leaf succulents found primarily in the northern hemisphere but extending into the southern hemisphere in africa and south america.