Hylotelephium, Sedum, Showy Stonecrop 'Autumn Joy'

The pollinators are always on this plant, so I'd plant it for that as much as anything else. It is a neat and interesting plant.
...Read MoreI have seen it growing in the shade, and it doesn't have as bright flowers as the ones growing in full sun.
The leaves and stems of ALL sedums are edible, BTW. They have a kind of peppery taste that goes well raw in salads or cooked with other ingredients.

A dependable Sedum, though it is used a bit too frequently in my opinion. Blooms September-October in my garden.

'Autumn Joy' is a nice foil for other late bloomers such as asters, and a good contrast to fine-leaved plants. Have grown it successfully...Read More in heavy clay soils in Maryland and Virginia, and moist loam in central New York. This is one tough plant, but well-behaved. However, in southern Virginia it is 'deer resistant' only to the extent that my plants have survived years of cropping by the night raiders, who seem to love both the flowers and the juicy leaves.

Very hardy. I picked this up for free at a garage sale. It was dried out and appeared dead. I sat the plastic pot out on some rocks with ...Read Morea hot southwest exposure against a light colored wall over two winters and it comes back every year. Whether I water it or not it survives. I planted it in the same location and it is still going strong.

I've just been given some cuttings and am wondering if I have to put this in a gopher cage. Does anyone have any experience with this pa...Read Morerticular plant and gophers?

When I lived in Maryland (zone 6), the Autumn Joy sedums thrived, and were seen everywhere. In the late afternoons, they tended to wilt ...Read Morea bit, but by morning they were upright, again. The sedums did tend to flop when they bloomed, but I learned that if I cut mine back by 1/2 around July 4th, they didn't flop in the fall. I grew new plants from the cuttings and planted them when they rooted. In a few years, I had them growing all over my flower beds, and was giving them to friends. Now, I live in Texas (zone 7b), with entirely different growing conditions. Gave the Autumn Joys a try in a container last year, but they got whiteflies (huh?????). They were mostly in shade, which may have been the problem. Quickly took some cuttings and destroyed the mother plants. The cuttings are doing great in late afternoon sun this year without a pest problem. In this dryer, hotter climate, I didn't cut them back in July like I did in Maryland, and they seem to be fine -- no flopping when they bloomed. Am going to increase the amount of sun exposure with cuttings next year. I don't see Autumn Joys grown here in Texas, but I do see them being offered in the nurseries. Haven't lived in Texas very long -- perhaps these great plants are just arriving in this market.....(?)

Quite long-lived perennial too -- mine is more than 10 y.o. Not floppy for me. Comes back early in the spring and already set buds (end of June).

After seeing Autumn Joy in a friend's yard four years ago, we took cuttings and started growing it as well (South Kingstown, RI). It has...Read More quickly become one of our favorites, growing in all sections of the yard, flourishing in different kinds of soils or sun conditions, needing little or no
care. Since Autumn Joy did so well, we tried other varieties of sedum which are also hardy and beautiful, perfect choices for rock gardens, around walkways and container gardening. Many positive comments from neighbors!

I have this plant as a border around our small patio - there is green all season and then of course we enjoy the color changes. Gives th...Read Moree patio privacy without closing it in entirely. Great plant.

I have first year plantings that began very well. But June has been a month of rain almost every day. The plants are laying on the grou...Read Morend, stems flopping sideways from the center. Sould I try to raise and stake the stems, hoping that the remainder of the summer will help them reposition and grow upward? or should I leave them laying on the soil?

I have two Autumn Joy sedums in the south-facing flower bed against my house. They're both planted in the rain shadow of the house, so a...Read Moreny water they get comes from when I water them with the hose. They're pretty tough and survive the extreme cold of our winters. One seems to be smaller than the other, but it could be because it's shaded for part of the day by the front steps. Other than that, they seem to thrive on neglect.

This plant is definitely a tough plant and one that is nearly impossible to kill. They will grow in part shade, but will not get as larg...Read Moree as those in full sun. The 'Autumn Joy' cultivar seems to have foliage that are one of three shades: the regular deep gray-green described here, variegated (yellow with a lighter green), and a lighter green that is almost the same color you'd find on Stock 'Vintage Mix' (we have all three in our yard, planted by the former owners of our house). I've never had problems with these plants flopping, but maybe that's because I ignore our Sedums unless it is unusually dry out.

The main reason I keep these is because of their blooms, which start out a pale pink and slowly darken to a deep brown-red.

I had this plant growing all over the yard when I moved in. At first I thought I'd have to get rid of it thinking it to be the ugliest p...Read Morelant. However when fall came it made up for the rest of the year and I ended up leaving it all alone. I was amazed that sun was listed. Most of mine are growing under shady trees and grow like weeds into huge plants.

This is a fabulous plant and does very well in my Zone 4/5 Canadian garden. It provides great spring/summer foliage and shape interest, ...Read Moreand a nice fall colour display. I have found propagation to be very easy. I divided 4 mature specimens into 10 in early spring, and all 10 recovered to the size of the parent by fall with only a bit of bonemeal as aid. Cuttings also root very easily, I take 4" cuttings leaving 2 leaves on and stick them directly into a nursery bed in spring, most try to flower by fall. However, as they seem to recover size so quickly through division I would recommend division, as my cuttings seem to grow very slowly.

Received the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), 1993 Award of Garden Merit. Reconfirmed in 2006.

For me, basically effortless. Hasn't taken over the world like so much seems to do, fills in nicely, blooms every year. I leave the seed ...Read Moreheads for birds over the winter and cut them back when the new growth is starting to pop up. That's all I do. I may divide them this year.

I find this plant to be a bit leggy, but aside from that it is nice enough. I am really not that fond of it and I don't treat it particu...Read Morelarly well, but the thing seems to be made of cast iron, I've moved it 3 times and it always seems to be fine. It reminds me in appearance of purple flowered broccoli.

I bought this plant last year and didn't know much about gardening. I neglected the plant by leaving it in its original pot outside over...Read More the winter. Suprisingly, it came back. This year, I platned it in a small bed with other succulents and it has done very well. I hope to add some more to my garden in the future.

I could not provide my zipcode to the 'Regional' area of this page as I do not live in the USA. This plant grows like a house on fire he...Read Morere in Ottawa, Ontario; we are in Canadian zone 5a, where winter temps can creep down to -30C.

This is a most reliable and sturdy plant that is green for most of the summer and blooms profusely just as most of the other flowers here are fading - a joy in autumn indeed. Easy to share by splitting, which you have to do every few years anyway. It seems salt tolerant, as we use a lot of this in my area, just to keep from injuring ourselves as we walk about in the winter LOL. Great for small gardens or large ones.

This plant is quite hardy and provides winter interest if you leave the stalks with the seedheads over the winter. The only problem I've ...Read Morehad with it is that in one specific spot the plants always die from root rot, but this is likely because of the slope and the lack of drains in the retaining wall.

So moral of the story, it doesn't like wet feet.

I have been growing these for several years now and love them. They are absolutely fool-proof and require no care whatsoever. So very eas...Read Morey to make more- cut off a bit and stick in the ground and voila- more sedums! Hot, humid and dry Georgia summers don't faze them a bit. I love the way the plants look during all 4 seasons.

The sedum in my garden attract butterflies and they look good when the blooms are open. They look like thousands of little roses.

In reference to JoanJ's comment about 'Autumn Joy' as a bee magnet, two years in a row now we have found late season bees (honey and bumb...Read Morele) on the blooms in the early morning, so cold they could barely move (great opportunity to pet them!) After some time in the sun they are able to fly away.

Moral of the story?... ...plant Autumn Joy for your late season nectar and pollen feeders. In the warmer states they are supposed to be great for Monarchs too. I wouldn't know, most of the Monarchs have left Minnesota by the time Autumn Joy is in full swing.

This is a truly lovely plant in late fall when the gardens are starting to look a little tired. This pulls through and blooms strong and ...Read Moreis a bumbleebee magnet.

This plant provides some winter interest to the garden. The rust flower stalks stay upright all winter, look nice with frost on them or e...Read Morespecially when they catch the snow.

We have found w/ all Stonecrop type Sedum that pinching back helps the correct the 'floppies'.
This helps tremendously w/ those gr...Read Moreown in less than ideal conditions, soil too rich, too little sun, etc.

We pinch at 6" high then take off about 4-6" at 12" tall
(which become our new starts).
You'll get a fuller straighter plant w/ far more blooms.

'Autumn Joy' though is one of the sturdier of this type.
Far less prone to flopping.

I'm glad to hear the reason for my "floppy" plant. I'd actually dug it up and replaced it with a newer, sturdier version. I'll try the ...Read Moreleftover clump where it won't get much water, and more sun.

If anyone wants a root cutting for postage or trade, email me!

This is a fine plant...... good if you want something really indestructable and easy to grow...... Looks nice with echinaceas and rudbe...Read Moreckias......... NOt the prettiest plant though...... pretty leaves although they can look very catctusy and inaapropriate in some gardens...... especially up north..... the blooms are nothing to write home about..... Look like broccoli...... good for low maintenance long term long season though not year round interest though......... would I reccomend it...... naaaahhhhh

The more you ignore this variety, the better it does. Yes, it does take a year or two to really establish a clump, but you should not am...Read Moreend clay soil, and you should not "feed" these plants. The amended and fed soil (along with too much water) is what creates the "floppies"! Left to their own devices, they self-sow willy-nilly anywhere within 10 to 20 feet! And, yes, they are very easy to propagate. Break off a stem & stick it in the ground! You'll have a small plant the next year, and a mature plant the following year.

Very Hardy. I have it growing in a mostly shade garden in the NE zone 6. I know it is a sun plant but this just shows how hardy it is.

I have been growing them for several years and have passed these plants on to friends and neighbors. Very easy to divide. I do use a ro...Read Moreund cage to help hold them together after they are about 6" tall or they seem to fall over. Have a great gardening day today. Thx.

I hope these do better their second year compared to the first year (container plants installed March '02). Contrary to what others have ...Read Moreposted, here in Northern CA mine bloom in the springtime after the winter rains. What I found disappointing is that without regular water, the flowerheads don't even open; just turn an ugly brown.

During the summer the plants were rather unattractive, particularly compared to the lantana, scaevola, euryops, etc., which bloomed very well on smaller amounts of water than the sedums apparently needed.

They died back a bit in late winter last year and now have almost doubled in size. I'm crossing my fingers that they'll perform better this year.

I think their foliage is very ordinary-looking compared to the newer varieties that are out. There are variegated leaf and purple leaf forms now, that I think would be more attractive when the plant is out of bloom.

My Autumn Joy bloom in August and are a sign to me that the oppressive summer heat will soon be tapering off.

This perennially-popular perennial was created in 1955 by crossing Sedum spectabile with Sedum telephium. It is often found listed as S....Read More spectabile or S. telephium.

Autumn Joy Sedum is a succulent perennial with 6" flat-topped flower spikes that open pale-pink darken with age to bronze. Foliage is gr...Read Moreayish green. Nice early fall addition to the garden.