Now for the question When it has finished flowering, if I cut it down to the bottom of the stems, ( in the 2nd photo ) will it grow back next year? Thanks.
One of the Sedums - they have a new name that I can't remember. I usually leave them and take the dead stems off in spring, but you can do it now. They're fairly indestructible, and easy to propagate from cuttings. The stems die back anyway, and new growth comes through in spring.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They are called "hylotelephiums" now, I think. If you don't want them so high but with more flowers next year, you can do 'the Chelsea chop' at the appropriate time next year.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I can never chop mine - they're only about 6 inches high by the time Chelsea's on, but I might try doing some a month later, and see what happens. Ours are all finished by now though, and looking a bit manky, so it may just mean an even shorter flowering season for them.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Those pics were taken this morning. When they started to flower they looked like theyn were going to be pale pink, but as they came out they went darker.
There's quite a few that are all similar @Pauline 7, but I have A. Joy and it looks very much like that I've just done some cuttings so that I can stick some into the back garden again. Mine are in the front, and I'm not often out there. They're humming with bees in late summer though, so very valuable
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I usually leave them and take the dead stems off in spring, but you can do it now.
They're fairly indestructible, and easy to propagate from cuttings.
The stems die back anyway, and new growth comes through in spring.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I leave the flower stems in over winter as they look great in the frost.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks @BobTheGardener - I'm never going to be able to call them that!
I can never chop mine - they're only about 6 inches high by the time Chelsea's on, but I might try doing some a month later, and see what happens. Ours are all finished by now though, and looking a bit manky, so it may just mean an even shorter flowering season for them.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Looking them up they do look very like Autumn Joy
I've just done some cuttings so that I can stick some into the back garden again. Mine are in the front, and I'm not often out there. They're humming with bees in late summer though, so very valuable
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...