Hylotelephium, Sedum, Showy Stonecrop 'Vera Jameson'

Vera looks beautiful in a rocky spot of my garden. Original planting of two plants. This year I pinched off several stems & stuck them ...Read Morein the ground where the soil is not deep enough to put in an entire plant - I'm thinking the new plants will adjust, but we'll see. The original plants do lay across the rocks, a very nice effect. The blue green leaves and maroon stems are gorgeous next to a sieboldii and several others - one with teeny-tiny leaves & two with small leaves.

This is a very different shape and color to add in with my autumn joy and my matrona and my soon to add autumn fire.

The foliage is such a lovely deep burgundy color. Flowers in September. Loves the sun. Doesn't get very tall - 12" or so.

I got a little start of Vera Jameson 5 years ago, and it just gets better every year. I divided it and transplanted it several times and...Read More it always takes right off.

I've had my vera Jameson for three seasons and I love it more now than ever. It's hardy, very easy to care for and is the only flowering ...Read Moreperennial in our bed(out of 4)that survived our S. Carolina, zone 7 winter.
The pretty, blueish green color of the foliage is eyecatching. It looks almost like a succulent. It really stands out against our other plants. It would work very well in a rock garden I imagine.
The blooms are very tiny flowers that form nice sized clumps at the end of the stem. The flowers are pink and fairly quickly turn a dark burgundy. These make gorgeous dried flowers. This year I put them in a tall aluminim pot with eucalyptus behind. Gorgeous!
The only drawback is, if placed by themselves in a bed, they will begin to lay flat because they cannot support the weight of their heavy stems. If planted next to a landscaping edge of some sort, they would hang over it nicely. They are still pretty even when laying flat. I try to build up and support mine with a mulch circle around the perimeter of the plant and that makes them stand up a bit. Around mid-August, you can see new shoots coming up in the center.