Trying to choose the best types of sedums for sustainable gardening is enough to make you feel like a kid in a candy shop. Whether sprawled like carpets of color amidst rocks or bobbling delicately ...

Now when the world is lush and green, our eyes are drawn to pops of color: the white bracts of Kousa dogwoods, the multihued blooms of roses and the delicate play of small groundcover blossoms like ...

* Common name: Creeping variegated stonecrop 'Tricolor' * Botanical name:Sedum spurium 'Tricolor' * What it is: A ground-hugging, heat- and drought-tough perennial groundcover with succulent green ...

As summer heat takes its toll on many perennials, plants in the genus Sedum continue to thrive. Moisture-retaining succulent foliage, combined with a tough root system, allows sedum to survive hot, ...

With this dangerously hot weather we are experiencing, and the drought we are all suffering from, there is one genus of plants out there that is reveling in our misery. Those plants are the sedums.

* Common name: Creeping sedum 'John Creech' * Botanical name: Sedum spurium 'John Creech' * What it is: A ground-hugging, heat- and drought-tough perennial groundcover that gets small pink flowers in ...