Sedum is one of those plants that is very easy to root. Just break off a stem and plant it for a new plant. You can also root the individual leaves the same way.

this is good to know, thanks.
Do you break off a piece and plant in the garden,or do you root in a pot first?

does it matter what season you do it?

(I've done this with Rosemary, and it works very well, I think they say to do it when the plant is at its full power.)

thanks,
ellen

I've rooted sedums in spring and fall. As long as the soil is moist, I stick them right in the ground. Even the upright types will stay firm and root. The trailing low growing varieties can be pulled away from the plant and stuck with a few leaves poking out. They'll root too.

Seeds are hard to find on mine, apparently. Although I do have some new babies in the garden this year. One popped up no where near any sedum plants. I think it's Autumn Fire as that's the only one that bloomed last year.

I have started sedum from seed but it is tiny like heuchera seed and hard to see in most cases. When I want to gather seed I generally just take the whole stem or flower top chaff and all. I know they are easily propigated but I got to start some from seed that I had never seen before and didn't have access to. They are also really facinating to watch grow from seed. I got one plant that I put in a planter and it seeded the hanging planter next to it as well. By the end of the summer I had sedums in both.

Thanks for the post. When you find a new interesting sedum let us know!

I am 26 and have been rooting a type of sedum similar to AJ but has lavender/pinkish blooms since I was like 4. My Grandma called them Frog Belly plants though. I've also heard them called live forevers.

I collected the seed head and crushed it up and WS'd chaff and all. I noticed a week ago that one of my sedum containers has sprouted. They were very tiny but I can't wait to see what baby sedums look like!

I also saved some sedum flower heads. I sowed them not too long ago.

I had gotten some pink sedum last year in an sasbe. the seeds were tiny specs (smaller than poppy seeds)

Last WS season the pink sedum were one of my first to sprout. They did not get real big last summer but were a pretty pink!

I have some other short sedum I had in a pot and I just break off leaves and throw them on top of soil. I started 4 plants in drink cups this way. All of them rooted well!

I just love sedum!

Karen

So, wait - will sedums some true from seed? Or is it that just about anything that comes up is fun to have?

Because I love sedum. I love everything about it, but this is one plant where for me, the bloom is very secondary to the plant itself. So fun to watch them grow from little rosettes in the ground in the spring, I love the shape of the leaves, the hardy look of the stems. . .

Every year I take a stem or two from my existing sedums and stick 'em in the ground. . . Adding seeds may be fun, especially if they *don't* come true - I can increase the variety in my garden!