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.
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’ 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’ 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’ 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.