Sedum telephium 'BrillIant' - TALL STONECROP 'BRILLIANT'
Brilliant pink flowers, pale grayish-green succulent leaves, flowers mature to rusty red.
Reliable tall stonecrops, stays ornamental for 6 months (leaves, flowers, seedheads).
Award of Garden Merit by RHS in 1993 (Royal Horticultural Society in Britain), does well in Europe and in USA.
Reminds of similar 'Autumn Joy' (but 'A. J' has subdued pink that matures to rusty color).
Blooming time: late summer to early fall - August/September
Size: 18" tall x 12-18" wide clumps
USDA zones: 3 to 9
Culture: full sun, half sun, half shade. Average soil with average moisture to drier and drained soil, drier clay, poor soil, rocky, gritty, sandy soils. Avoid wet and waterlogged soils.
Moisture Needs: medium to medium-dry, dry, tolerant to summer droughts, heat and humidity
Origin: Europe, garden selection.
Black Walnut Tolerant: yes
Deer/rabbit resistant: no/yes (depends on the deer pressure, it's browsed where overpopulated)
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: butterflies, including Monarchs, honey bees, some native bees
Attracts Hummingbirds: occasionally
Pot size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant combinations: Beds, larger rock garden, large containers, pollinator garden, naturalistic gardens, urban gardens. Good companions van be Achillea millefolium (cultivars), Asclepias tuberosa, Dalea, Echinacea purpurea cultivars, bearded Iris, Lavandula, Nepeta x faasenii cultivars, Origanum vulgare and cultivars, Paeonia, Penstemon, Rudbeckia, Salvia, Salvia nemorosa, Stachys ( 'Humello', 'Summer Romance', 'Pink Cotton Candy'), other Sedum, Thymus, Satureja, Yucca, and grasses (Koeleria, Muhlenbergia, Panicum - shorter selections), Schizachyrium, Sesleria, Sporobolus, Stipa tenuissima.
Pot size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Pictures copyright: Rob Hille, Wikimedia Commons
Sedum telephium 'BrillIant' - TALL STONECROP 'BRILLIANT'
Brilliant pink flowers, pale grayish-green succulent leaves, flowers mature to rusty red.
Reliable tall stonecrops, stays ornamental for 6 months (leaves, flowers, seedheads).
Award of Garden Merit by RHS in 1993 (Royal Horticultural Society in Britain), does well in Europe and in USA.
Reminds of similar 'Autumn Joy' (but 'A. J' has subdued pink that matures to rusty color).
Blooming time: late summer to early fall - August/September
Size: 18" tall x 12-18" wide clumps
USDA zones: 3 to 9
Culture: full sun, half sun, half shade. Average soil with average moisture to drier and drained soil, drier clay, poor soil, rocky, gritty, sandy soils. Avoid wet and waterlogged soils.
Moisture Needs: medium to medium-dry, dry, tolerant to summer droughts, heat and humidity
Origin: Europe, garden selection.
Black Walnut Tolerant: yes
Deer/rabbit resistant: no/yes (depends on the deer pressure, it's browsed where overpopulated)
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: butterflies, including Monarchs, honey bees, some native bees
Attracts Hummingbirds: occasionally
Pot size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant combinations: Beds, larger rock garden, large containers, pollinator garden, naturalistic gardens, urban gardens. Good companions van be Achillea millefolium (cultivars), Asclepias tuberosa, Dalea, Echinacea purpurea cultivars, bearded Iris, Lavandula, Nepeta x faasenii cultivars, Origanum vulgare and cultivars, Paeonia, Penstemon, Rudbeckia, Salvia, Salvia nemorosa, Stachys ( 'Humello', 'Summer Romance', 'Pink Cotton Candy'), other Sedum, Thymus, Satureja, Yucca, and grasses (Koeleria, Muhlenbergia, Panicum - shorter selections), Schizachyrium, Sesleria, Sporobolus, Stipa tenuissima.
Pot size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Pictures copyright: Rob Hille, Wikimedia Commons