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How To Root Sedum Cuttings.

 

Sedums are one of the easiest plants to start from stem cuttings. Starting new sedums from cuttings is a very simple way to propagate them. When you take a stem cutting, you’re removing a portion of stem from the mother plant and forcing it to generate an entirely new root system. As you are taking your cuttings, store them in a sandwich bag to keep them from drying out, this is best practice when taking any cuttings from your garden.

To take stem cuttings, fill a pot with damp potting mix then cut several stem pieces off the mother plant with the scissors. Each stem section should have at least two growth nodes (the place where the leaves meet the stem). Remove the lower leaves, but keep two or three of the leaves on the top because they will provide the energy needed to grow new roots. No need for rooting hormone just firmly insert the bottom quarter of the cutting into a pot of potting soil all the way up to the bottom of the remaining leaf or at least 1/4 of the cutting.

Place one cutting in each pot, then water the soil and allow the pot to drain. Water, when compost appears dry to prevents the cutting from drying out until it can form its own roots in a few weeks. Place the covered pots on a bright windowsill or in a shady spot in the garden and soon you will see new growth.  Two weeks later, the plants will be ready to plant in the garden.

You also can make more sedums by taking leaf cuttings. This method takes a bit longer, but each leaf cutting can result in dozens of tiny plants.

To make a leaf cutting, remove a single leaf from a sedum plant, using a clean, sharp knife. insert the bottom half of the leaf into a pot filled with potting mix. Cover the cutting with a plastic bag and keep it well-watered. A new plantlet will grow where the cut leaf contacts the potting mix.

25 Assorted Variety Succulent Sedum Cuttings Winter Hardy

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Planting a Sedum Fairy Garden

I have been looking at fairy gardens and the creative little accessories people make to add to the enchantment and was inspired to create my own.  Being a total Sedum addict, I have around seventy types in my personal collection that I wanted to show them off and group them together in a lovely big shallow planter. The only problem was finding one. After a good few weeks of looking my lovely hubby came home with one for me and I was over the moon, it’s strange the things that make me happy 🙂

I was in the garden in a heartbeat, selecting the plants I wanted to use, not having much in the way of “fairy garden” accessories it’s a fairy garden minus the fairy but including a solar power hula dancer. I know a little strange but still cute she also has some multi-coloured fairy lights that come on at dusk, again solar and it just gives it some life in the evening.

To give the mini garden some hight I used a lovely mosaic pot I had dropped and broken in half and yet still couldn’t throw away.

So here it is so far, I hope to be creating some little fairy garden accessories soon and I will keep you posted 🙂

Sedum Rupestre Blue Spruce – Hardy Blue Succulent

‘Blue Spruce’ stonecrop has narrow, fleshy, needle-like, blue-green foliage which often becomes tinged with orange or red in winter. Bumblebees and butterflies visit the yellow star-shaped flowers of ‘Blue Spruce’ in the summer.


A Super easy to care for plant. Robust, low maintenance and easy to establish.

Because it is a succulent, Blue Spruce Sedum is exceptionally drought tolerant and easy to grow. Provide very well-drained soil adding gravel if necessary to improve drainage. It prefers full sun but will tolerate shade.

Blue Spruce Sedum is useful as a groundcover or border in garden beds, rock gardens & look stunning in fairy gardens. Will trail over walls and the edges of pots in container gardens and head planters.

Very easy to grow from cuttings at any time of the year. Just snip off an established stem and place in well-drained soil in a sunny spot. Can be grown indoors in a bright location or any bright/semi-shade location outside.

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