SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Lime Twister’ & Sedoro ‘Blue Elf’ in alpine trough garden

SunSparkler® Sedum 'Lime Twister' & Sedoro 'Blue Elf' drought proof groundcover Sedum

SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Lime Twister’ & Sedoro ‘Blue Elf’ add color to alpine trough garden

Last Saturday, I thought it would be fun to create a few alpine trough gardens featuring our 2 new SunSparkler® additions for 2015, SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Lime Twister’ and SunSparkler® Sedoro ‘Blue Elf’.

I used a variety of Sedums and Sempervivums in this colorful combination. The bright orange in the right-hand corner is my selection of Sedum ‘Coral Carpet’. I’ve collected ‘Coral Carpet’ from about 15 different sources and spent the past 3 years evaluating these different clones. This was my favorite.

 

 

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Close-up of SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Lime Twister’, which is a variegated sport of our ‘Lime Zinger’ groundcover Sedum

As you can see from this close-up picture of SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Lime Twister’, it adds a wild variety of colorful variegated foliage with tints of pink highlights.

 

 

SunSparkler® Sedoro 'Blue Elf' drought proof groundcover

SunSparkler® Sedoro ‘Blue Elf’ with its tight-growing 3″ tall habit

 

 

 

 

 

 

This tight-growing little blue Sedum look-alike is our exciting new breeding breakthrough hybrid between Sedum and Orostachys, named SunSparkler® Sedoro ‘Blue Elf’.

 

 

 

 

SunSparkler® Sedoro 'Blue Elf' drought proof groundcover Sedum

SunSparkler® Sedoro ‘Blue Elf’ in full bloom on September 18, 2013

 

 

Sedoro ‘Blue Elf’ keeps this compact 3″ tall habit for the entire growing season and is topped with clusters of hot-pink, grape-soda-scented flowers in late summer which are highly attractive to honey-bees.

 

 

SunSparkler® Sedum 'Lime Twister' & Sedoro 'Blue Elf' drought proof groundcover Sedum

SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Lime Twister’ & Sedoro ‘Blue Elf’ on June 1, 2015

 

 

 

Lastly, here’s one other alpine trough garden featuring both Sedum ‘Lime Twister’ and Sedoro ‘Blue Elf’.

I added a couple of Sempervivums along with the red foliage of Sedum album hillebrandtii.

 

 

 

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