Hello Everyone!
My name is Jesse and the last two years I've spent lots of hours learning about and getting my lawn restored. Now that I have it in good shape my eyes are looking around the rest of the yard and how I can beautify it. I have a flower bed that runs along a section of my driveway. Below that bed are beautiful 100 year old flagstones that get covered with crabgrass each summer. This summer I began researching options for low growing ground covers I could plant in between the flagstone. I found Turkish Speedwell, or creeping veronica, and was pretty intent on giving that a try. I called a local nursery and asked about it or similar plants I could use. The gentleman I spoke with mentioned a "gorgeous, low growing orange sedum" I asked him to repeat the name.. sedum? I had never hear of them. He explained they are a variety of succulents. I replied I wanted a perennial and one that could survive a Connecticut winter. I couldn't believe it when he said there were dozens if not hundreds of cold hardy varieties! I've always loved succulents but figured they were only a warm climate plant. Now my mind is racing and I am obessed with researching and learning more about these plants and design ideas. So here is my space I want to develop with stonecrops and hens and chicks.
I'm just overwhelmed at the moment with all the variety and but also eager to get started. The wave/super putunias I planted this year were placed way to close together and they are now leggy and weed grasses are coming through. Not sure if I should try to get some stonecrops down this fall, or if spring is better. I have completely killed all the weed grasses between the flagstones. I was planning on digging some of the soil out from between the rocks and amending with succulent sand to help with the drainage.
Am I correct in saying all stonecrop and hens and chicks are cold hardy? I am in zone 6b. These can really be covered in a foot of snow and come back in the spring? Does anyone have any good resources for getting started with Sedum / Succulents? I have no idea how to pick and place the plants design-wise.
Jesse
