Sedum 'Fulda Glow'

Sedum 'Fulda Glow': Glowing Bronze-Red All Season Long

'Fulda Glow' is bronze-red every single day of the season, like somebody who found one great self-tanner and never looked back. Red flowers on top, because why stop now. ALWAYS ON. NEVER FADING.

Plant Characteristics:

• Botanical Name: Sedum spurium 'Fuldaglut' (also listed as Phedimus spurius)
• Common Name: Two-row Stonecrop
• Height: 5–10 cm (2–4 in)
• Spread: 25–30 cm (10–12 in)
• Flowers: Red, star-shaped flowers in small clusters on short stalks
• Bloom Time: Mid to late summer (July to September)
• Foliage: Small, rounded, succulent leaves in bronze to red all season

Where to Plant: Use it along path edges, in rock gardens, between stones, on wall tops and in gravel beds. Plant it in groups so the colour reads from a distance. It handles hot, sunny spots and lean soil, including the dry edge of a driveway or patio.

Companion Plants: Use bronze 'Fulda Glow' as a carpet in a sunny, dry bed with chartreuse spurge, steel-blue globes and soft yellow coneflowers. Euphorbia polychroma opens chartreuse-gold bracts at 30 to 45 cm in April and May. Echinacea 'Mellow Yellows' adds soft yellow coneflowers at 80 cm from June to October. Echinops ritro brings spiky steel-blue globes at 90 to 120 cm from July to September. Festuca mairei adds a dense, arching clump at 60 to 90 cm in flower.

Plant Care: Plant in full sun for the strongest colour. It will grow in part sun, but the leaves turn greener. Give it well-drained soil. Sandy, gritty or poor soil is fine. In heavy clay, add grit or plant on a slope so winter wet drains away. Water through the first season, then only in long dry spells. No fertilizer needed. Shear off spent flower stems if you want a tidier mat. In spring, pull back pieces that wander too far and replant them to fill gaps.

History: Sedum spurium, two-row stonecrop, is native to the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia and has been grown as a groundcover for generations. 'Fuldaglut', sold in English as 'Fulda Glow', is a German cultivar offered as an improvement on 'Dragon's Blood' for its deeper, longer-lasting colour.

Final Thoughts: Drop it on a dry bank and let it creep. Bees stop by, deer don't. YOUR SUNNIEST SPOT JUST GOT A GLOW UP.