Put them in pots and you could save them and improve your garden, too
Last year, I finally admitted that the unsightly middles of collapsing Hylotelephium ‘Herbstefreude’ (formerly sedum) were too much and dug them up. However, I couldn’t quite bear to part with them– I just love those huge panicles of flowers too much – so I invested in some large, handsome terracotta pots and moved them there. I deliberately planted them low, so they couldn’t collapse.
The results are perfect, dense mounds of flowers and, best still, when the inevitable holes appeared in the garden in August from plants that needed cutting back or had failed, I now had the solution. I could even place the sedums in parts where they’d never have succeeded, such as under an evergreen strawberry tree that errs on the wrong side of partial shade. I don’t even mind seeing the pots: I like the height and structure they add to the garden.
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