Agreed. It would be a shame to damage such a nice shaped plant but you can easily tweek bits off and move them to other areas. Have a gently poke about and you may find bits that already have roots above ground. It looks good spilling out across gravel at the front of a bed or draped over rocks.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
If it has rooted everywhere I don't see a problem with the spade method. I've done this repeatedly with my sedum cuneifolia and the admittedly indestructible sedum rubrum. I also happen to have a spatulifolium, but so far I've left it alone.
Strange that neither of the Sedum you mention are to be found in the list of Sedum (and allied genera) species. I wonder which ones you mean.
Confused me too so I had a google. I thought he might mean the 'jelly bean' sedum (rubrotinctum) butrubrum appears to be a synonym of sedum caespitosum.
Cunefolia is a london pride type saxifrage I think but is very similar to some sedums. It looks like a nice plant too, I'm going to keep an eye out for some of that for my stone wall.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I confused myself! Yes its saxifraga cuneifolia -- it's low and slow mat-forming, I love the colour and shape of the leaves. I grow it in half-shade -- it really dislikes full sun (This plant grows in woods (mainly beech or chestnut), on shaded rocks and boulders, wikipedia). Fantastic ground cover, I am curious how it will behave over the coming years. It's quite different from London pride in size (growing that as well). The sedum I was again off the mark, that's what you get from posting half asleep. I meant sedum spurium. Other sedums I grow are 'rupestre' (gold, probably 'Angelina') and the good old weed Sedum acre.
Thanks all for the input. Im thinking about the plant in the future and not just for now. Atm it's fine but it is growing in to the other plants and i would like to have more of it throughout the garden.
@nutcutlet after the spade you see a clinically clean cut, but that's gone in one or two days (at a push three) -- straight away little bits that were tucked inside will be nudged outwards without any help. I like the spade method as you can transplant a good rooted chunk with a fair bit of soil that gets going very quickly. Similarly the bit left behind will quickly expand again. In this particular case I doubt whether it's possible to hang on to that nice circular shape very long anyway, if that is a concern.
Although if you use a spade you will damage the plant and open it up to fungal infections and end up with bits dying off. Take cuttings or carefully removed rooted sections and there will be less damage. I wonder if you could lift the whole thing and split it more gently into rooted chunks. It wouldn't hurt to move it all closer to the front of the border away from the taller plants anyway and it could spill out onto your gravel then too.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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I see a nicely shaped plant, what would I see after the spade?
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