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Problem with some sedum plants.

9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago

I love sedums. They can take summer drought, they can take huge amounts of rain, nothing seems to bother them. I have a front yard with a collection of many sedum plants. However, there are some I can't succeed with and it's very frustrating. I am in zone 8 and they are in sandy gravelly soil in full sun.

Sedum dasyphyllum, sedum oreganum and sedum spathulifolium just fall apart into pieces and they don't root like some others say. I end up with a small branch of the whole plant, which in turn disappears in a year or so. I pick them and bury them in the soil but they don't seem to make it. They are all in full sun, I've tried part shade, many plants, nothing seems to help. I've managed to conserve spathulifolium, but dasyphyllum and oreganum are the main problem. What am I doing wrong? If I look on the pictures on the internet, there are beautiful carpets of oreganum, spathulifolium and dasyphyllum but mine don't even stay.

Sedum cyaneum always gets eaten by slugs, no barriers help. All the other sedums grow very well. Kamtschaticum, album, sexangulare and floriferum spread like weeds, sieboldii, forsterianum, rupestre Blue Spruce, Angelina, tatarinowii, spurium, spurium Tricolor, thundercloud, niveum, tetractinum, cauticola (both Lidakense and Robustum), hispanicum and pachyclados thrive also.

I am no inexperienced gardener but these three drive me mad. Any help? Thanks.

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