Trying to choose the best types of sedums for sustainable gardening is enough to make you feel like a kid in a candy shop. Whether sprawled like carpets of color amidst rocks or bobbling delicately ...

Q: In the spring, I am planning to plant a groundcover on the west side of the house, next to the road, partly to avoid mowing the meager grass and the dangerous traffic whizzing by. The plows throw ...

Now when the world is lush and green, our eyes are drawn to pops of color: the white bracts of Kousa dogwoods, the multihued blooms of roses and the delicate play of small groundcover blossoms like ...

Once upon a time when the central-Pennsylvania landscape was routinely snow-covered all winter long, about the only thing green sticking out above the sea of white were evergreen shrubs and trees. But ...

If you're looking for the perfect ground cover for year-round color in your garden, it's hard to beat sedum, also known as stonecrop. A standout hybrid in the 300-species Sedum genus is Sedum fine ...

As summer heat takes its toll on many perennials, plants in the genus Sedum continue to thrive. Moisture-retaining succulent foliage, combined with a tough root system, allows sedum to survive hot, ...

With this dangerously hot weather we are experiencing, and the drought we are all suffering from, there is one genus of plants out there that is reveling in our misery. Those plants are the sedums.

A. Sedum `Autumn Joy’ normally forms a compact mound but sprawls when grown in poorly drained soils, overwatered or in a shady location. Sedums need full sun and well-drained soils on the dry side to ...