Beautiful Sedums

Very, very nice!

Oh that is so different! I love it!

Very original and appealing: Nice job, looks great!

I agree, it is wonderful. I love seeing the collage banners once in awhile. Great placement of the photos.

Yes, nice!

But now I'm curious, it looks almost like a milkweed in front of the tall sedums in the middle picture in front of the fence...is that sedum flowers all the way up the stem? I have never seen a sedum do that, if it is what one is it?!?

Many thanks to all of you for the kind words, likes and acorns regarding the Sedum banner that I submitted.
So overwhelmingly appreciated!

@BrendaVR



Above are the original photos that I'd taken last summer in 2013 of my Autumn Joy Sedums sitting on the deck rail in front of our pool fence.
When I nabbed these 3 blooms in early July (the 4th) of 2013 they were close to 4 inches tall and had one bloom w/ a few leaves on each of them.
I put them in a glass of water for a couple of days and then when I had a bit of time I prepared a mixture of ½ sand and ½ miracle grow potting soil, removed their bottom leaves and then “shoved” them into these pots, water them and set them in the sun.
The 2nd photo was taken in mid to late fall just before I transplanted them.
I owe my success w/ these little beauties to a number of special folks (I hope they remember who they are because I certainly do and, thanks AGAIN!!) here @ ATP for their helpful suggestions and guidance throughout my Sedum’s growing phase!
*This was my 1st time ever dealing w/ Sedums.*
I apologize if I confused you w/ the picture that I posted as I had to crop it to fit the banner that I created.

Early this spring and throughout this past summer's growing season they’ve been tasty treats for either voles, mice or rabbits.
I snatched up the debris that was left behind, the leaves, stems w/o blooms, and the stalks that still had a couple of buds and or blooms on them and I put them in the ground in front of my house, all of them “caught on” and are progressing quite well, even the leaves that I transplanted.
My Mums in that particular area were failing so I needed to replace them w/ something else and I didn’t want to just throw the chewed off Sedum bits away so it ended up being a win/win situation.
“Something” snacked on them in that area as well especially the leaves that I just “shoved” into the ground so it will be interesting to see what transpires next spring.
I’m thinking it was rabbits because I noticed that we had an awful lot of little bunnies in our yard this past summer.
Shaw

Shaw you have proven your skill in both raising sedum and photography. Well done.
Hope you can figure out what the culprit is that is feeding on them. Do you have slugs? I didn't know that bunnies would eat the sedum. We have very cute native dwarf bunnies and they have never eaten my sedum or semps. Maybe your bunnies find them tasty?

I've been gone so just saw your banner. Very nicely put together! It made a great banner!

@Shawwannda
Very nice!

I'd say you did wonderfully your first time with sedums! I've never seen such nice healthy ones! (mine usually only get the one bloom at the end, yours look so nice this way!)
Sorry to hear about this season though Very disappointing to have them eaten!

@4susiesjoy @BrendaVR and @valleylynn
Thanks ladies!

Lynn,
Yes, I do think that I have slugs (Though I've never seen any or the slime that they leave behind.) or something of that nature.
I've tried to fight the slugs w/ eggshells, coffee grounds, a mixture that I found on the net and, chemicals w/o any luck.
Last fall I used that stuff (Sluggo?) that you recommended and in the spring as well but didn't use any chemicals later on as I only tried to treat organically throughout the summer because our yngst dau planted a couple of tomato plants in between the sedums as there were big spaces w/ nothing growing there since it was the first yr I'd planted my sedum plants.
I thought maybe it was because of the tomato planting but I am doubting that now.
The very small green caterpillars got to my sedums first and I got most of them off but I really didn't want to fully destroy them because of them eventually being a benefit w/ pollinating later in the summer.
I also sprayed w/ a mixture of dish water, garlic, very hot peppers and if I rembr correctly I put onions in it too.
I let it sit in the hot sun for a few days before I used it.
I made 4 gallons of this mixture and used it on all of my plants throughout the summer.

I'd pulled most of my Echinaceas from my other garden last summer per Clint's suggestion because many of them had "leaf hoppers" disease.
A few grew back this past summer and I ended up only having to pull one due to the leaf hoppers disease.
I sprayed them w/ the dish water veggie mixture too.
Both of my big flower gardens were eaten by whatever it is that's eating them.
I have hole in leaves and they turn brown then black.

Are grubs and slugs one in the same?
Perhaps I have both?

I'd wondered about voles only because one morning before I left for the clinic I went out to check my sedums and a black rodent ran out from that area, I thought it was a mouse.
When I got home that evening I found a nest of cute little voles under the pool deck and we also saw big and little ones running under our patio deck.
I "think" we solved that prblm after putting poison out as we'd gotten a prize of several dead voles.
I even looked up voles vs mice on the net so I was sure that they were indeed voles and not mice.
And, also as I mentioned above in my earlier post we got lots of rabbits as well and they "hang out" where my sedums are located.

I must admit, I am stumped.

Heh, no Grubs and Slugs are indeed different. Slugs I find eat the vegetation above ground but grubs usually eat the roots below ground. But voles can eat allot too...hard to know for sure whats doing it. I haven't had issues with things eating my sedums thankfully. The rabbits and voles go for the more tender things in my garden...

I'm not any help either because the only thing I've had eat my Sedums are deer.

Slugs are like snails without the shell, and as Brenda posted above, they have different eating habits. Both can be very destructive.
We do have rabbits and voles, but don't seem to have damage to the plants from them. Our weather is so mild, and there is so much natural food year round, they just don't find the garden plants appealing.