Elizabeth Red Carpet Sedum Plant

Plants are evergreen in warm winter climates.

Elizabeth red carpet sedum plant.

The emerging foliage is burgundy in spring retains a reddish edge in summer turns a delicious deep red in fall. Prostrate mats of bronze foliage are topped by pinkish red flowers. Sedum spurium elizabeth is a vigorous and effective groundcover. Sedum spurium elizabeth growing conditions.

The red carpet sedum has ground hugging form and attractive small succulent rounded foliage. Rosy pink flowers appear in mid to late summer. Occasional deep carmine red flowers. In the colder months pink tones begin to appear in the foliage and by mid winter dark magenta rosettes are set.

Easily propagated by cuttings or division. An easy ground cover that brightens up a garden with rich red and copper tones. Sedum spurium phedimus spurius elizabeth. It blooms in late summer with tiny pink star shaped flowers.

It offers red blooms throughout the summer. It shows its best colors when moderately stressed by full sun and or cold weather. Native to north america. It will tolerate most soil types and is drought resistant.

Unlike some sedum cultivars red carpet may be grown from seed. Seasonably available while supplies last. Butterflies are attracted to the small red star shaped flowers occurring late spring through early summer. Sedum spurium red carpet red carpet aka elizabeth stonecrop red tinged foliage keeps its color throughout the growing season then turns deep burgundy in fall winter.

Sedum elizabeth needs to be planted in full sun in well drained soil. This forgiving spreader tolerates rocky soil full sun drought and hard frosts. Cut a leaf from a healthy sedum with about 1 2 of stem and plant the stem with the leaf above soil. To 4 inches tall.

The foliage is a dark red with green and produces a wonderful fall color. Elizabeth is a charming variety that offers red touched blue green foliage that turns red in fall. New growth is cherry red in the spring with red margins throughout summer. Plants spread easily root where nodes touch the ground.

Elizabeth has red blooms that flower from may to september.