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Sedum Autumn Joy — 51 Comments

  1. Thank you very much Alistair, really appreciated. Your image of Sedum Autumn Glory in October in a Scottish garden is the best of everything I looked at on the internet. I’ll send the link as soon as it’s published later this week. Thanks again. Glen

  2. Hello Alistair – I have been trawling online for a picture of Sedum Autumn Joy and the best image I found was on this website. I wondered if you would be happy for me to use this image in Caledonian Horticulture’s October newsletter. I will credit you and Aberdeen Gardening obviously, with a tagline and link to your website. Thank you for an incredible website full of superb images and amazing insights and advice. Best wishes. Glen

  3. Hi Alistair
    I planted Autumn Joy in in my Perthshire garden about 10 years ago. For the last few years I have cut it back about the end of May to stop it flopping. This year the weather was so cold that it didn’t grow as quickly and I didn’t cut it back. Now it’s about 18”- 24″ tall and the flowers are appearing so I may just leave it alone. Other years I found cutting it back helped to make it sturdier – but I hated that in between period when waiting for the flowers to grow back! On the plus side the flowers I cut off other years are now dotted about the garden growing into lots of other Autumn Joy plants and the flowers on the original remained upright despite a hilly Perthshire location.

  4. Your garden looks great all the time Alistair. I love pansies and I like how you have a mass planting bordering the garden. I got your message on adding my garden to the Your Garden’s Page. Thank you, it was nice that you did that.

  5. Hey my friend,
    I also enjoy Autumn Joy. and have for over thirty years. The key to growing it for me is being sure to pinch it to keep it sturdy and not flip over when in full bloom

  6. I have it too and it is one of my favourite large sedums. I have another sedum called ‘Matrona’. Not so bold like this one bur also beautiful having reddish stems and pink flowers.

  7. I used to grow sedums in Orkney but they got vine weevil damage. Yours look spetacular Alistair and they are so good for attracting butterflies. I decided earlier this year to make a space for some so I bought a plant at a sale and turned it into several cuttings. I’m amazed how easily they take. I’ll plant them out next year in a sunny spot. Thanks for that piece of advice.

  8. Alistair

    Firstly thankyou so much for the compliment and the offer of a link to my blog on your special page – which I will graciously accept.

    Sedums are a favourite of mine and Autumn Joy is a much easier name for me to remember. I notice that it’s the continental stock that uses the word ‘Herbstfreude’ while the herbaceous stock sourced directly from UK nurseries is labeled up as ‘Autumn Joy’.

    Sedum is a plant I can remember as a little child as it was always so easy to propagate from those little rosettes. I like Purple Emperor aswell though it’s just not as hardy in my cold garden.

  9. It’s Sedum time indeed! Such a great plant that associates well with both lush and dry style of planting 🙂 And your plant is very erect and neat too! Is it supported at the moment or have you given it a chelsea chop last May? The front garden is looking great as always!

  10. Hi Alastair, I didn’t undeerstand what you said on my blog that my blog doesn’t open when I comment. Does it still not do that? cheers, cm ps now I understand – should have fixed it.

  11. Kininvie, we used to have the garden when it was a total explosion of foliage and flowers in Summer only. I must say it has been so much more satisfying trying to get the garden looking good all year round. Although wait for it, I kind of miss how it used to look in July/ Aug

  12. that sedum is one of my faves but somehow I have never found a place for it in the garden. Pansies are so characterful and cheerful they must be worth the effort. Can you grow Johnny Jump Ups in your climate? They are trouble free, re-seed themselves each year.

  13. Hi Alistair, I really admire your energy, getting everything planted out like that, ready for Spring. By this time of year, I barely do anything in the garden….the excuse being that the soil is too wet to dig, and the winter frost makes clearing herbaceous stuff so much easier. Even stuff I buy for ‘Autumn planting’ is apt to remain in its pots until March. I’m in two minds about Seedum spectabile – I have a few, but I have organised my life to have a June garden, rather than an every-season garden, so they annoy me when they flower….why couldn’t you have done that in June? Succession planning is just not me.

  14. Hi Alistair, sorry, I am very rarely on Blotanical, so it could have been months before I picked up your message, sorry! Anyway, I am more than happy for you to link to my blog and have a pic of my garden on your page, thank you for checking though!

  15. Yes Janet, it really is the only gardening job which I dislike. I left a message for you on blotanical about a week ago, blotanical virtually freezes up on me now, so I have given up in the meantime trying to get in. What I was asking is, on my site I have a page (Your Gardens) I placed a picture of your garden and a link to your site on it. If you are not happy with this I will remove it.

  16. Hi Alistair, you are ahead of me, I have the pansies, but have not planted them yet – mainly because I too dislike the chore of emptying the summer annuals from their pots so there is nowhere for them to go just yet! I really must get on with it, this balmy (and barmy) weather is about to come to an end, and I will be kicking myself if I find myself emptying pots in dull grey coldness.

  17. Ah, when I look at your website address I didn’t realise you were using wordpress, I now see it is. Its a pity replyme is not available to others who use blogger etc. Certainly did answer my question, thanks Alistair

  18. If you reply to my comment, I get an email from the ReplyMe widget. Then I go back to the blog and reply again if I so choose as I just did. I now use ReplyMe because I learned it from your blog. I love it. Did that answer your question??

  19. So very true Donna, I hope you don’t mind me enquiring but do you have some set up which gives you an email when I answers a comment which you have made on my post. Or is it just that you go back and spot that your comment has been answered. I know that the replyme does this for wordpress users.

  20. Hello Donna, the Pansy’s and Violas usually start to look sorry for themselves by mid January and normally recover and give a great show in Spring.

  21. Alistair you have reminded me of a few things. One, some of my sedums need moving to a sunnier, drier location. And two, I need to remember pansies in the fall. They look lovely in the fall and again once the snow melts in spring. But I think I delay because the deer find them edible delights too. Your sedum is gorgeous.

  22. Hi Jane, neighbours are complimentary but wouldn’t be surprised if they were really thinking, silly old sod spends all his time in the garden.

  23. Hi b-a-g, planted the Sedums four years ago. Just regular sized plants which you would expect to see in the garden centres 2ltr pots. By the second year they looked very much as they do today.

  24. Hi Frances, I think all Sedum spectabile carries the common name (Ice plant) The one you have probably is Sedum Spectabile Neon. I will have to add the name spectabile to my Autumn Joy post. I am glad you brought this to my attention.

  25. Alistair – Just wondering how old your spectacular sedum is? Do they get more flowers as they age?
    The pansies in the pots surrounded by moss are my favourites.

  26. Hi Frances, perhaps I use the term red! a bit loosely. Moss does form in the shadier parts of the garden but not so much that it would be a nuisance, birds like it in the Spring.

  27. Thanks for the visit Fay, hope I have your name right as I am going through a senior stage, should be ok when the tablets start to work. I will look forward to your plant profiles and of course I don’t mind, in fact doing an Alistair feels like an honour to me, unless its used in some of my other habits which I would rather not talk of.

  28. Hi there, love the sedum, the colour so rich, I don’t think many of the other varieties compare as well as this one. Brilliant choice. Gardens going o look lovely when the winter bedding goes through into early spring. Cauld here, hail and snow have put an appearance in. I don’t like end of season jobs either. Just removed all the window boxes from upstairs (in, of course) as the tomatoes are all but finished. Funny it seems like only yesterday that I was trudging upstairs with them to plant tomatoes in!

    Getting back to sedums the White form ‘snowflake’ nor many of the dark/variegated foliage types never did well in islay with me despite high hopes.

    I’ve been taking your name in vain, I’m working on my website (well the content, a very clever persons working on the actual site) and I’m beginning to compile ‘plant profiles’, I’ve found myself calling this task ‘doing an alistair’. Hope you not mind, I’m going to blog one of my favourite plants soon and take your name in vain publically if that’s ok?

    I’m hoping you don’t mind! Happy gardening, great post

  29. this sedum looks a bit like the one I have been nuturing after it went yellow last year, mine is from my parents garden planted by my Dad over 20 years ago (I took some pieces from the parent plant when I moved here) I notice you say it has silvery pale green foliage so perhaps mine should be pale green I thought it was under nourished …. we learn, mine goes more fushia than red though so not quiet the same, yours is a beautiful plant,

    I love your pots especially the ivy trailing and the mossy, they make a nice combination with the pansies, do you sometimes get problems with a bit too much moss? Frances

  30. Hi Alistair,

    Perhaps I ought to pull up my Dahlias; I contemplated it yesterday but as they’re still blooming I put it off… I should bit the bullet as such and just do it do I can protect them over winter.

    I love your sedum and look forward to mine getting as big – they’re only a year or so old so not as massive yet.

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