Here’s how we took a bare patch of gravel parking lot and turned it into a 3,000 square foot rock garden for show-casing our series of SunSparkler® Sedums. The site for our future rock garden measures 20 feet wide and 150 feet long for a total of 3,000 square feet. Since this has been used […]
We’re in the process of creating a very large 3,000 square foot rock garden at our Research Greenhouses here in west Michigan! We began this process late last summer of 2014 with the delivery of 9 dump-truck loads of soil and over 15 pallets of sandstone for the wall and pathways. In late October, we […]
Landscapers and gardeners alike are contacting me with their appreciation of the spring and summer foliage show on SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Dazzleberry’. I shot this image showing Dazzleberry in late July of 2013 as it turns a rich purple-blue and is loaded with buds for its upcoming flower show in late August. […]
‘Dazzleberry’ was selected not only for its giant 8″ raspberry flowerheads, but also for its pearl-blue foliage which changes colors and intensifies throughout the growing season. This first picture shows the bright spring & early summer foliage color. This close-up allows you to see the contrasting pink-red stem coloration against […]
I first selected SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Dazzleberry’ out of a field of 4,000 seedlings. It was chosen for its extremely compact habit, showy blue-gray foliage, and GIANT flowerheads! Over the next 5 years, ‘Dazzleberry’ continued to impress me with its immense globes of blooms. I used a soccer ball to help give some scale to […]
SunSparkler® Sedum ‘Dazzleberry’ – This was my very first introduction and I selected from a field of 4,000 seedlings in west Michigan. This exciting new groundcover Sedum only grows to 8″ tall x 18″ wide, but has HUGE 9″ flowerheads held above disease-free dusky-blue foliage.Key Benefits Include:
My name is Chris Hansen and I’m the hybridizer of SunSparkler® Sedums. I’ve always been fascinated by this ultra-hardy group of perennials and several years ago I began a comprehensive breeding program with the goal of introducing a series of unique, never-before-seen Sedum hybrids.