Good morning and welcome to sixth is weeks Six on Saturday.
The weather has been decidedly colder this week and Tuesday night was the coldest of the year so far. I like the frosty cold weather as it covers some of the evergreen Sedums with sparkling silvery magic. I had a couple of hours off work on Wednesday and spent most of it taking photo’s of the garden.
Here is my SOS and I am not afraid to say it is Sedum heavy this week. Enjoy.
1. Kalanchue (Cockroach Plant)
I posted a picture of this in flower last year. I planted this into the garden as a bit of a laugh 6 years ago and it is still going strong. If you read the literature there is no way this plant should survive cold wether and especially the cold weather we had last year during the Beast from the East. As you can see however it just survives year after year. It will flower in the spring and produce masses of yellow flowers. i think it survives because it is on a relative dry bit of the garden. I call it the cockroach plant because I am sure it would survive a nuclear bomb!
2. Sedum Oreganum
A native of the Pacific Coast of America including Alaska. I particularly like the red stems. This is a creeping plant and an excellent ground over. I have this is on several containers in the garden and thrives in poir quality soil.
3. Sedum Rupestre Angelina
A stonecrop that is common in most parts of Europe this can be pretty invasive. However I have planted this in both a contained area and in a place where I am not bothered if it takes over as there is nothing growing there at the moment (under the kitchen window on a thin strip of gravel). The leaves take on a medusa quality and look like elongated strange colour pine cones in my eyes. I have just read that you can use this as a herb in salads and has a sour taste. I will give this a go in the summer.
4. Sedum Alboum Athoum
Planted last year this one did not flower but it is growing strongly. It produced masses of white flowers. Hopefully this will be a star in the garden this year.
5. Sedum Reflexim Cristatum (Crated Stonecrop)
Is one of the weirdest looking sedums. It looks like a cockscomb. Left unchecked it will produce fantastic ground cover. I will however how to move it to somewhere else as at the moment it is in my mini gravel garden.
6. Saxifraga waiting to spring into action.
I am not to sure which flavour this is but as you can see it is starting to produce buds. It should start flowering in around 8 weeks. Will try and identify it then.
That is this weeks SOS I hope you enjoyed it. Gardening opportunities are going to be limited this weekend but I am sure I will have the odd half an hour in the garden. I am off to watch Newcastle v Watford in the FA cup this afternoon. Could this be Newcastle’s year😂
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Sedums, Dahlias and Hayfever 
The sedums with frost look really pretty!
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Not sure which one I like the most. I thought it was number 2 with the beautiful red stems but the structure of number 3 is amazing, number 5 is just weird. Enjoy the football.
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It’s rare for us to get a hoar frost so it’s nice to see all your plants given the glitter treatment with it. I’m not complaining, frost is something I can manage without.
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Brings out the best in a garden sometimes!!!! Not necessarily the succulents however!
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As I didn’ t reply on your Twitter this week, I take advantage of doing it today : your sedums pictures are really beautiful. My preference goes to the #3…
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Mine as well Fred.. J hate people that praise themselves but I love that one!!!
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I love your sedums. Frost only makes them better and it is great to see such lovely plants, so hardy. I reckon that I will be trying some in gravel troughs ( or graves, as some people like to call them!) soon.
PS I do not think it will be Newcastle’s year. Leyton Orient have got Blyth Spartans in the FA Trophy next week though!
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It is never Newcastle’s year!
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Such pretty photos! I love it when a plant doesn’t bother reading the books and gets on with it inspite of what the experts say.
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Great photos. The frost really enhances the beauty of the sedums.
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It certainly does.
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Beautiful photos! I hope you didn’t get too cold taking them. I particularly like the last one.
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No don’t worry Granny there was no wind (makes it worse). You get used to the cold on the NE coast
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Your varieties of sedum have educated me today, and for that I thank you!
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No problem. Here to help.
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I love your photos! I never realised sedums were frost tolerant
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Yes most of them are from Alpine regions and the North. They are very hardy plants.
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#3 has it for me. Such strange looking plants.
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