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Re: SEDUM, AUTUMN JOY

You can take a spade and just push it straight into the plant in early
spring, making a pie shaped cut and lift out a section and move elsewhere,
filling in the void with good soil.  Or, you can dig the whole plant and
cut it up into several sections.  You will lose some of the tight little
bud rosettes, but don't worry about that, the plant will make more.

Sedum are also, generally, easy to root as cuttings.  Even now, you can cut
a stem and stick it into the soil and if you can keep the soil moist, it
will root.  I've rooted many stems this way when they have been decapitated
by one of my hideous, malicious hoses -- even when they were in bloom.

I find one needs to divide or at least dig and disturb this plant fairly
often or it tends to flop open from the center when it reaches blooming
stage.  Anybody else find this to be true?

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
Editor:  Gardening in Shade
http://www.suite101.com

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