Hi all!
I am new here but have spent the past month looking through the VAST amount of info on ATP. Excellent resource you all have! (plus a very addictive way to avoid the fact that I am in zone 4/MT and can't get outdoors to garden)
I have hundreds of questions re: sedums, semps, and tender succulents (indoors), hostas, alpine, hyper-tufa, greenhouses, permaculture....I should stop now! I will try to post to the correct threads for each as time allows.
I am going to change the majority of my back yard from grass into beds/paths, etc. Drought tolerant with a few beds/areas for other types of hardy perennials. I will be using lots of ground cover sedums so am hoping to begin propagating some indoors. Do any of you know if I would be able to purchase sedums online (I have been looking at your member lists on here and see that some of you list things for sale
) and begin growing them indoors for a few months (I have access to fluorescent lights and some good south exposure windows)? My goal is to take cuttings of anything that begins to grow enough and repot babies to multiply by the time spring arrives in my area (mid-may). Am I better off waiting until spring to purchase the plants and planting directly out in beds? I would really prefer to begin propagating in advance because I will need A LOT! Just not sure if it is actually feasible to grow the sedums indoors for a while?
I could also make some cold-frames, if you think that would work better to get my newly purchased sedums to begin growing earlier than May, so that I could get a jump on my available plants by the time I begin my transition from lawn to beds/paths/outdoor rooms.
I am so glad ATP has such a huge resource of information available! You all are doing some amazing things on here and I greatly appreciate any opinions you can share with me on how best to move forward. Also, for members on ATP that have plant cuttings listed for sale on their lists, do I just contact them for more information? I know that a lot of you share/swap but I won't participate in that method until next year or this fall when I have been around here longer and have more to share in return
Looking forward to finally "meeting" a lot of you!
