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Dragon's Blood Sedum

17 years ago

A couple of general questions about Dragon's Blood Sedum. My first question is if I can transplant them around the base of one of my trees. I have a three year old Willow in the back yard and I wanted to plant some reasonably good sized Blood Sedums around the base of it without harming the tree.

Second I planted two flats of the Dragon's Blood on the back side of our fence. Last year and the year before. They have not grown well probably because it is ungoldy hot back there and during the summer I often fail to remember to water them. They have also become very tendrily. Is this normal? There a few short, upright red leaves on each plant but mostly they have very, very long white tendrils with a few of the red flowers/leaves on each. I'm kind of wondering if I trasnplant them which I will be doing shortly should I cut the tendrils off. I'm not really sure what to do to make the plants more compact.

Thanks.

Kate

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shrubs_n_bulbs
17 years ago
This is a normal response to summer heat and drought, they are almost deciduous and die back to dead-looking stems (some of them might actually be dead!). They should grow back whenever rain and cool weather returns. The normal growth habit is trailing, they are a good ground cover, but don't expect them to grow as an upright plant.

In habitat, they grow and flower rapidly during a mild moist spring, then play dead through the hot dry summer. I don't know how close to the coast you are but they will gladly take as much water as you can give them, except possibly if you are in a really wet winter area.
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