Sedum Matrona

Sedum Matrona

€5,90
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Sedum Matrona

Sedum Matrona

€5,90
Organic
Sustainable
Locally grown
Sedum Matrona, also known as Hylotelephium Matrona, is a late-blooming member of the stonecrop family - drought tolerant, with soft pastel-pink flowers on long purple stems and a spectacularly long flowering period.

Sedum Matrona is a succulent plant with yellowish-green leaves flushed with red and held on strong, erect, reddish stems.

The stems can grow to 1 m tall, forming a clump up to 1.2 m wide.

The leaves are a soft green, tinging on the edges with a light purple hue, oblong in shape with toothed margins and arranged in opposite pairs or alternate along the stems.

The soft pink flowers are star-shaped and appear in dense flat-topped clusters at the top of the stems from late summer to early fall.


Flowering August, September, October
Flower Color Dark Pink
Exposure Full Sun
Frost Tolerance -15°C to -20°C
Size 0.5m H x 0.4m W
Soil Rocky/Well-Draining
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🪴9x9 cm

🚂 Ships across EU
🌱 Grown in our nursery

⛔ Sedums can suffer in overly moist or fertile soils.
💦 High drought tolerance once established
☀️ Sun-loving: Performs best in full sun
👍 Low-maintenance

Gardening Tips

✂️ The plant dies down to the ground in winter, and new shoots appear in spring > don't hesitate to prune back the stems at the end of autumn to facilitate the spring growth

The Botany

'Matrona' is a hybrid seedling, from a cross between Hylotelephium telephium subsp. maximum 'Atropurpureum' and Hylotelephium 'Autumn Joy'.

It appeared for the first time in Ewald Hugin's garden in Germany in 1991.

Ecology

There is more to this showy plant than meets the eye.

Petroleum hydrocarbon (PHCs) pollution is a global soil ecological problem and multiple studies have shown that the S. spectabile remediation system is effective for the removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from soil, especially when assisted by two nanomaterials (nano SiO2, nano CeO2).

More importantly still is the ability to transfer the PAHs to easily harvested aboveground parts, thus facilitating the actual removal of the pollutants from the soil.

A real diamond in the rough.

The Myth

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