Re: MEDIT-PLANTS digest 1320
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- Subject: Re: MEDIT-PLANTS digest 1320
- From: L* a* A* F*
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 08:53:25 -0500
- References: <199909010705.AAA23470@nixon.ucdavis.edu>
Dear Kurt,
I don't think you have the real Autumn Joy. It really does look like
its pictures!
6 years ago I bought, 3 plants that match the pictures, with the brick red
flowers aging to cinnamon. When I moved, I left those plants, thinking
they would
be easy to replace. Many 'Autumn Joy' purchases later, I have yet to
get the
same plant. I've been told when 'Autumn Joy' got popular, growers started
raising sedums from seed and labeling them 'Autumn Joy' instead of ex.
'Autumn Joy'.
The results is lots of wishy-wasy plants. So now I hunt nurseries in
the fall,
and looking for a sedum with brick red flowers. Hope springs eternal!
Lisa Flaum
> My plants are sturdy and healthy-looking (although, like Paul, I have had
> occasional infestations of aphids), and I like their unique form. It's nice
> that they come back every year and that they're so easy to propagate. Other
> than cutting them to the ground every year after they die, they take
> virtually no care. I think they're worthy of a place in the garden, and I've
> even shared them with friends. I just haven't been that impressed with it.
> Mine has never resembled the pictures you see of it in catalogues. There,
> the flowers are always a beautiful brick-red that deepens to a cinnamon-brown
> as the plants age. For me, the flowers are a mousy, pinky-brown that darkens
> to plain brown as the foliage yellows. In other words, not that attractive.
