Sedum and weep

Even though its 80 today, Fall is still all around us, expecially in some trees starting to turn, and in the Sedum (Sedum spectabile ) in the LipsYard front beds. The border varieties of Stonecrop are a dependable choice for the late summer and fall garden, offering foliage interest earlier in the season, then a colorful display of flowers in the fall. Autumn Joy is by far the most popular of these, a familiar sight when it begins to produce green broccoli-like buds in mid-summer, which gradually open into enormous dusty-pink flower heads, finally deepening to rich bronzy-red. Even the dead flower heads have good winter effect.

The Sedum are alive with bees, too. Can you find Mr. Bumble Bee? He's uncovering lots of hidden pollen, just like Congress is uncovering lots of Bush Administration scandals. The latest involves the State Department, and their Inspector General not looking into fraud and wasteful spending in Iraq, where they've spent over $3 billion, including $600 million for our biggest foreign embassy ever.

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1170 photos of different kinds of Sedum


There's even a Sedum Society