Sedum Matrona
€4,90
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Sedum Matrona
€4,90
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.
👨🌾GARDENING TIPS👨🌾: Sedum Matrona
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- 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
- Sedums can suffer in overly moist or fertile soils.
The Tales & The Botany: Sedum Matrona
'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.
Origin
Northern Europe
| Flowering | August, September, October |
| Exposure | Full Sun |
| Frost Tolerance | -15°C to -20°C |
| Soil | Rocky/Well-Draining |