And we'd all agree with him!

Oh so true Bev, Chris and JC!! Keep up the good work buy buy buy!!

So funny!!!!

Yeah, the latest order has been placed, you're all a bad influence on me...
42 more plants and bulbs are heading my way, it had better stay warm soon!

Edit: Weird, I just counted and 42 plants are how many I'm already babysitting...

Doubling your collection in one swoop - I Love it! What did you order?

Various sedums, lilies, coral bells, grasses, and other cool things.
Hopefully they don't ship too soon, I'm running out of space to babysit plants inside.

I can't wait to see pics of when they arrive!

Today, I received the reshipment of the plants that were damaged in transit. Muuuuch better condition. Neither the box nor the plants looked like they were stomped on repeatedly.

Here are some Major Wheeler honeysuckle. Hopefully they will be enough to eventually cover the horribly rusty, ugly fence and provide a cool backdrop for everything else.


This is a little trio of carpet sedums that were thrown in free.
Does anyone know the name of the bottom sedum?


Here is a closer picture.

@gg5 @springcolor
Julia and Greg, J.C.'s sedum looks familiar to me, but not sure of it. What do you two think? Does it look like Sedum acre to you guys?

Lynn, I was thinking it looked like what's on Arlene's head while she was visiting her daughter and "helping out"

The thread "New use for my invasive Sedum Acre" in Sedum forum

That picture makes me laugh every-time!!!!! I'm not so good with those ground cover sedum.

Really I don't think its an acre, looks like some type of S album to me, but don't know what kind

I'm sure they will all grow quickly though!!

Haha, when you said sedum acre, that was the first picture I checked it against.

I think the leaves (what do you call them on sedums of this style?) look closer to album; they are more rounded than many pictures I've seen of acres. But I really don't know.
The closest match I've found is S album 'Coral Carpet', but the leaves/needles on the mystery sedum appear to be narrower and I'm not sure of the size of the coral carpets in the pictures.

For reference it looks kind of like a mini S rupestre 'Blue Spruce', but the needle tips are more rounded, not pointed. It is also more green, and it is less than half the size (currently about 1/4" wide).
Any ideas?

JC I have a feeling the closest you will get to an ID is S album there are so many different types that it could be several different ones.

Yeah, the more pictures I look at, the less I'm even sure if it's album or acre. So many internet pictures are so nonconclusive. I'll find one picture that looks similar only to see that every other picture looks totally different. This happened with a pic of S acre Goldmoss Stonecrop.

I just don't know...

All of my acre have sharpish looking tips - they're not sharp but not rounded at all...all of my album have rounded tips...I'm not a pro, and have only been "fancying" sedum for a couple of years, but that's my experience...it would be nice if there was a simple clear explanation as to what distinguishes an acre from an album??? (hey look at me, I actually know latin plant names - crazy! )

J.C. have you looked at sedum.com? There are some great pictures there for reference.

Look at you go Greg!
Thanks for the help, your knowledge of sedums is vast compared to mine.

Just got a package of cuttings in today from fellow ATP member a2b1c3 (Mark Mallon). There was a ton of cuttings in the box. Very cool!
Here is his thread: The thread "Succulents / Cacti for postage" in Cactus and Succulents forum

Here's what was in the box:


I mentioned to a friend that I might try to grow an elephant ear this year and she showed up with this.
I don't know how large elephant ear corms normally are, but this one is huge (basically the size of a baseball).
We'll see if I can keep it alive through the heat.