Growing Non-GMO Sedum Dragons Blood Flower Seeds

Start Sedum Dragons Blood seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before the final frost date. Dragons Blood seeds will germinate in 2-3 weeks. Once germinated, move under a fluorescent grow light for 16 hours of light per day until two sets of true leaves have developed. Transplant Dragons Blood seedlings to an indoor pot and "harden off" if transplanted outside. For direct sowing, plant Sedum Dragons Blood seeds in average, medium-dry, and well-drained soil in full sun. Avoid overhead watering and water soil directly to minimize wetting foliage. Sedum plants can be susceptible to verticillium wilt, leaf spots, and stem rot. Cut back spent foliage, leaves, and blooms after flowering to prolong vitality into summer.

For larger plants earlier in the season, start the seeds indoors and transplant them once they have true leaves and good roots. Sedum blooms throughout the summer and will die back at the first frost but will come back next year. We recommend either using a slow-release fertilizer or simply working organic compost into the soil each spring to boost growth. Use mulch to keep weeds down, especially in the early days, so that the plants have a chance to establish themselves. Cut back fading blooms to prolong color and prevent reseeding.

Sedum Dragons Blood in the Flower Garden

Sedum is perfect for low-maintenance rock gardens, garden beds, and borders. Plant it along sidewalks, roads, and driveways for easy-to-care-for color and greenery. It is attractive to butterflies and yet, it is remarkably resistant to deer and rabbits.

Landscape Use of Sedum Dragons Blood

Dragon's Blood seeds are durable, easy to grow, and ideal for indoor containers and baskets or as a charming ground cover around flower beds and walkways. The succulent-like foliage has a charming appearance that looks at home in a variety of landscapes.

About Sedum Dragons Blood Garden Seeds

Sedum will self-seed and volunteers will come up the following year if seeds are not collected. They can become quite prolific if left to their own devices. This can be good when you want it to spread over a rock garden, but should be kept in check.

Sedum spurium is also non-toxic for humans and pets. While some succulent-like plants are poisonous, this variety is even considered edible. The leaves are edible and have a slight astringent, bitter or peppery flavor.

The Dragons Blood Sedum flower also known as Caucasian Stonecrop has many half-inch wide blooms of single-petaled, star-shaped flowers.

Sedum plants store water in their leaves which makes them wonderfully drought tolerant. These hardy plants are sure to thrive as long as they don’t get water logged.

Sedum Dragons Blood is a 1988 All-American Selections Flower Winner for its early flowering, petite dwarf size, and long, summer blooming. The Sedum is a hybrid selectively crossed and bred in 1890 by pioneering American horticulturist Luther Burbank. Burbank worked out of Sonoma County in California and named his new strain of white-petaled daisies in homage to the snow-capped peak of nearby Mount Shasta.

Tips From Our Gardeners

”I even see Sedum plants where I live in Michigan! People popularly plant them in near mailboxes and other roadside planters because they can take the abuse. There is also no need to water them more than the rain gives here, and so they are perfect for areas where sprinklers might be missing."

- Lara Wadsworth, True Leaf Market Writer

Dragons Blood Sedum Seeds Per Package:

• 1000 seed Packet

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