Red stonecrop sedum is a fast growing ground cover with brilliant red flowers in late summer.
Red stonecrop ground cover.
Red carpet is a low mat forming red leafed sedum or stonecrop.
Sedum spurium red carpet common name caucasian stonecrop.
Many gardeners are familiar with upright varieties of sedum such as sedum autumn joy as excellent plants for late season color in the dry hot days of late summer and early autumn.
But there are also several varieties of low growing sedum that are very good as ground covers in hot dry areas of a landscape where turfgrass and other plants struggle to survive.
For example stonecrop red carpet plants grow 2 feet wide so the central stem of one plant should be about 2 feet from the central stem of the next plant.
Red carpet is an evergreen ground cover that grows 3 4 tall spreads to 18 24 wide.
Leaves are attractive throughout the growing season.
Make them the talk of your garden.
Ground cover plants such as stonecrop should be spaced according to their final growing dimensions.
Check out the distinctive foliage on sedum plants.