Bonnie, I have a sedum that spreads easily and makes a spectacular ground cover, but is now the dark red color of the last pic, early in spring. It seems to bloom every 2nd year? Does that make sense? Shoots up 6" high, pink flowers mid summer? The deer gnawed it all off at the ground this spring, but it's coming back. We pull it out by the handful if it starts to take over the place.

Signed: Sedum Identification Challenged.

I like your sedums! Yours are much prettier than the little ones at the nursery.

Catmint and columbines are blooming here. Oh, and dandelions. Do those count? I'd get a picture but we are having a sandstorm - it's blowing in off of the reservation. It's wild out there.

Looks like you'll have snow and sedum tomorrow.

Cheers,
Michelle

Well, Id be glad to bring sedum cuttings for anybody who wants some, but I posted that over on the swap thread (back when I first posted some pictures of what I had available), and nobody has taken me up on it so far. As of right now Im planning to bring cuttings of some of the sedums along for Azuras son, but if anybody else wants anyLET ME KNOW!

Bonnies pictures are goodexcept for the one that you said to correct you on if you were wrong! The third oneif it was evergreen (ever-red???) all winter, must be Sedum hybridum rather than S. kamtschaticum. The kamtschaticum, in both the variegated and the plain, is deciduous, so it couldnt have been that. When theyre green in summer, if I have the two of them side by side, I cant tell which is which, but the one thats evergreen is hybridum! I could possibly have had that marked wrong when I sent it since it was green at the time. That was a long time ago, so I dont remember! SO, what youre supposed to deduce from all that is that the variegated one is kamtschaticum, and the plain green one is hybridum!

Here are a few more pictures of some of them. If anybody wants any cuttings, let me know. You can see what Bonnies little cuttings have turned into since last spring!
Dragons Blood left and Angelina right (plus one of my hen & chicks!) 02.23.08 (I cut mine way back a couple times a year to keep them "contained" and neat looking, so theres not a whole lot there! (Click any picture to enlarge)

Left to right: Sedum hybridum, Dragons Blood, Angelina 04.08.08

Sedum album with some of its winter color left 02.23.08 This one is DANGEROUS! Little bits of it will root all over the yard. You wont even know for sure how it got there!

Sedum kamtschaticum Variegatum blooming (Angelina in background and also 4 kinds of hen & chicks)

Blue Carpet

Sedum pachyclados (Cant bring cuttings of this one to this swap cause it was looking "stemy" so I cut it down to the ground!)

And here are a few of the hen & chicks I have. I dont know the variety names of most of them. Im bringing unrooted ones along for at least three people as of now, and would be glad to bring some for a couple more people, but I cant guarantee which ones youd get. Itll just depend on which ones have enough "chicks!" By next year (maybe by the Fall Swap) I should have plenty of almost all of them to bring some for whoever wants some. As a matter of fact, by then Ill probably be begging people to take them so Ill still have room to keep getting new varieties! I have some new ones I got last summer that havent even been planted into the ground yet! I think theyre FUN! (The first picture is a named variety. Its Icicle)

And nowsince this thread is about whats blooming nowheres what Ive had blooming so far, and whats blooming now! The captions dont show up when I link them here, but if you click on them they come complete with dates!
Phlox douglasii Cracker Jack Its way past its peak now!

Primrose

Johnny-jump-ups - these have been blooming some since January, but they keep getting better!

Bleeding Heart

Ajuga Chocolate Chip

Ajuga Arboretum Giant

And an absolute favorite of minethat looks MUCH prettier in person than it ever does in a pictureWaterperry Veronica

I guess itll be a while before you ask for pictures again, eh, Bonnie?

SIC David uh guess that doesnt sound so good!
David, Your sedum is most likely Dragons Blood since thats one of the most readily available ones, and yours is probably still red since youre still getting snow out there sometimes, and its colder than for some of us. It greens up pretty quickly when it decides to, and mine has just completely greened up in the last two weeks or so. They should normally bloom every year, but if yours are getting "cut down," intentionally or unintentionally, that could be setting them back enough that they dont bloom sometimes. Tricolor gets leggy and floppy easily, and I tend to cut mine back a lot, and it rarely blooms. So if you want yours to bloom every year, you may need to put an 8' fence around it! Or sit out in your yard 24/7 with a shotgun! ;-)

I have dandelions too, Michelle, but I just weed & feeded today, so I hope that takes care of them!

Spring has sprung,
Skybird

Ok, finally have mine taken. They don't hold a candle to all of Skybirds pics. Skybird, I love your sedum gardening! Wow!

Catmint planted last year, blooming with yellow tulips. I like the color mix! It was unplanned - I forgot about the tulips being in there, and had no idea when catmint bloomed.

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Columbine started from seed and planted last year. I have decided I love columbine!

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And an angel I found hanging in my great aunt's old lilacs. She passed away a few years ago. Also found a cool old harp/windchime in the dirt at her old house spot, and I put that next to the angel. I MUST remember to plant white tulips around the angel.

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Cheers,
Michelle

Yes please skybird I'd love some sedums or other sun-loving perennial groundcovers.

Ooooooh, Skybird, I really like that Primrose! And the Hens & Chicks are adorable! 'Icicle' is definitely one of the ones you gave me, but the other one could be any of those last three.

I thought that I had lost all of the Pachyclados that you gave me, but I noticed a tiny bit of it growing in a container of mixed Sedums yesterday.

Bonnie