{"id":458,"date":"2016-07-18T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T08:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-07-18T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T10:06:42","slug":"sedum-ice-plants-for-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/sedum-ice-plants-for-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedum Ice Plants for Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/sedum-specabile-cardinale.jpg\" alt=\"Sedum telephium matrona\" width=\"440\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This fleshy leaved Sedum Telephium Matrona is just colouring and clumping up in my garden. It is not as vigorous as Sedum spectabile Autumn Joy which can be come a bit of a thug if left unchecked.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look out for even stronger burgandy coloured foliage and flowerheads<\/li>\n<li>Try the &#8216;Chelsea chop&#8217; on plants in May to encourage later growth that isn&#8217;t as prone to flop. Cut back the young growth and wait for the plant to rejuvenate<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes called Ice Plants the heads can be left on over winter and look good rimed in frost.<\/li>\n<li>Nearly as attractive to Bees and Butterflies as the Buddleia<\/li>\n<li>Easy to grow even in poor soil and work well in cottage gardens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1604693924\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/1604693924.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fleshy leaved Sedum Telephium Matrona is just colouring and clumping up in my garden. It is not as vigorous as Sedum spectabile Autumn Joy which can be come a bit of a thug if left unchecked. Look out for even stronger burgandy coloured foliage and flowerheads Try the &#8216;Chelsea chop&#8217; on plants in May to encourage later growth that isn&#8217;t as prone to flop. Cut back the young growth and wait for the plant to rejuvenate Sometimes called Ice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/sedum-ice-plants-for-autumn\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}