PAINESVILLE, OHIO 
Hardy Perennial Plants 47 
SEDUM^ [Stonecrop] 
A diversified, interesting and 
very useful family, the backbone 
of rock gardening; and fitting 
beautifully into the edging and 
low plant situations of general 
gardening. Mainly very low grow¬ 
ing close jointed, densely spread¬ 
ing, good m either shade or sun. 
Acre (Golden Moss). 2 to 3 inches. 
Minute foliage very dense like 
moss, dark green; flowers simi¬ 
lar to leaves, an all-covering 
golden yellow sheet. May to July. 
Used for carpet bedding and fill¬ 
ing between rocks and flagstones. 
Album. 2 to 3 inches. A miniature 
forest of upright stems clothed 
with waxy, tubular, green leaves ; 
terminal clusters of tiny white 
flowers. May to July. 
Grlaucum. 1 to 3 inches. Similar 
to the mossy Lydium, except its 
color is bright blue-gray; blush 
white flowers. 
Eydium. 1 to 3 inches. The 
smallest Sedum ; close groups of 
little round balls made up of the 
tiniest green beads, the color 
changing to purplish bronze; 
pink June flowers. 
Sarmentosnm, Dwarf, rapid 
grower; one of the best for fill¬ 
ing seams between rocks in wall- 
gardens ; equally effective in 
other rock garden usage, or for 
bordering. Bright yellow car¬ 
peting bloom. June-July. 
Spurium Coccineum. 6 to 8 in. 
Thrifty, loose growth with kite¬ 
shaped leaves, very showy. July- 
August, with fringy, upright 
panicles of crimson bloom. 
Six above: 3, 55c; doz., $2.00. 
Kamtschaticum. 8 inches. Ro¬ 
bust and vigorous, prostrate, 
quickly spreading. The wide flat 
leaves are escalloped, arranged 
in partial rosettes, fresh green 
turning yellow in autumn. The 
i/i-inch florets are perfect stars 
of orange-yellow drying to red, 
in low-set clusters. 
Sieboldi. 8 to 10 inches. Reddish 
stems with alternating tiers of 
opposite %-inch leaves,—round, 
thick, rubbery, blue-green with 
red rim. The bright pink flowers, 
renlindful of Daphne, are charm¬ 
ing. August-September. 
Two above: 3, 70c; doz., $2.50. 
Spectabile. 15 to 18 inches. An 
excellent bordering variety with 
big,’ saucer-like, sage green 
leaves of rubbery texture stacked 
up in diminishing tiers, covered 
in September with massive flat 
cymes of lavender flowers. 
Spectabile, Brilliant. Similar, 
except its cymes are a vivid 
violet-crimson color. 
Two above: 3, 55c; doz., $2.00. 
SEMPERVIVUM 
[House Leek]<$> 
A most interesting group of 
small succulents ; ideally fitted for 
use in the crevices of wall and 
rock garden. The leaves are thick 
and rubbery, arranged in usually 
tight rosettes ; expansion being by 
a surrounding colony of exact re¬ 
plicas even in their tiniest stage. 
Arachnoideum minus (Small 
Cobweb House Leek). Four 
inches. Small, dense rosettes in 
close root-association. The tips 
of leaves are laced together by a 
cobweb of silvery threads; the 
short-stemmed flowers are bright 
red in loose panicles. 
Sedum Kamtschaticum. 
Grlobiferum. Flattened rosettes 
2 to 3 inches across ; the broad, 
uncrowded leaves gray-green 
lightly tipped brown. %-inch 
yellow flowers in densely hairy 
panicles a foot high. 
Tectorum (“Hen-and-Chickens”). 
The central rosette averages 3 to 
4 inches across, with long, up- 
curving, pale green leaves hav¬ 
ing purple pointed tips ; the flow¬ 
ers pale red. Hovering snugly 
all around and even peeping up 
between the wings are the brood 
of tiny little “chicks.” 
All: 3, 40c; doz., $1.50. 
The Set (3 each) for $1.00. 
SH.E£TE<$> Sc haft a (Autumn 
Catchfly). 4 to 6 inches. A low 
border or rock plant, with mass¬ 
es of bright pink flowers from 
July to October. A good succes¬ 
sor for Maiden Pink. 3, 55c; 
doz., $2.00. 
SPIREA^> ulmaria filipendula 
(Dropwort). Numerous white 
flowers on 15-inch stems. June- 
July. Dark fernlike foliage. 3, 
55c ; doz., $2.00. 
STATICE latifolia (Sea Laven¬ 
der). 15 to 18 inches. Leathery 
foliage, minute blue flowers, 
similar to Forget-Me-Not, in 18- 
inch heads. Last for months if 
dried. 3, 55c ; doz., $2.00. 
STOKESIA (Stokes’ Aster). A 
2-ft. bushy plant, lavender bloom 
July to October. Flowers .often 
4 to 5 inches i n diameter. 
3, 70c ; doz., $2.50. 
TEUCBIUM canadense (Amer¬ 
ican Germander). Six-inch spikes 
of rosy purple flowers. July and 
August. The attractive dark¬ 
toothed foliage makes a spread¬ 
ing ground cover. 
—chamaedrys. Used as an ever¬ 
green shrub with densely ascend¬ 
ing stems. Small flower whorls 
in loose spikes, bright rose with 
white and red spots. The valu¬ 
able foliage is dense, small, 
round, dark, glossy—closely re¬ 
sembling dwarf Boxwood for 
which less hardy item it is often 
substituted. Can be clipped to 
any desired height up to 12 
inches. 
Both: 3,65c; doz.,$2.25; 100,$14.00. 
Sedum Spurium Coccineum. 
Sedum Sieboldi. The “Autumn Daphne.” 
Sedum acre—“Golden Moss.” 
