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Sedum Spectable
Tricia Muddyboots
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I have just been told that if you cut Sedums back during the Chelsea Flower Show (circa 23rd May) they will keep their shape and not open out with an empty centre when they flower in September. Good advice!
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This is one of the things I'm always going to do but never get around to
In the sticks near Peterborough
The Cheltenham Chop! Doesn't quite trip off the tongue
It works for me. When I had several S. Specabiles I would stagger the chop, doing each plant at about 10 day intervals, prolonging the flowering period
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you say cut back, do you mean off by the stocking tops or right down to the floor?
I imagine right down to the floor. And yes, each cutting will make a new plants -- they root very readily.
..I have found this to be the case if you have them planted on richer soil... where I have mine now, on poor stoney virtually soil less ground... I have no need to do any 'chop'.... in fact, I love the foliage at that time of year, nice bushy non flowering plants that give a visual so integral to my border, it would be unthinkable to cut them off... I prefer them at this time than in flower, to be honest...
Be brave! It looks awful after you have chopped, but in no time at all they fill out and it really is worth it.