Garnet Brocade Sedum
This new cultivar (Garnet Brocade Sedum) is similar to the old standby ‘Matrona’, but has more of a purplish cast to the foliage and a better habit.
The purplish cast is better known if you give it the adequate sun it needs to turn the leaves to this beautiful color.
Shown above is a young garnet brocade sedum plant
As sedums are succulents they hold water in their leaves, this gives allows them to be somewhat drought tolerant.
‘Garnet Brocade’ has a more compact hybrid stonecrop that typically grows in an upright mound to 14” tall and 18” wide.
The flower heads can get heavy as shown in the photo , making the plant spread slightly.
Garnet Brocade Attracts
Beautiful burgundy bronze foliage and garnet red flowers. Flowers bloom in flattened cymes from late summer to fall.
In late fall burgundy flower buds open to garnet red sprays of flowers. Garnet Brocade attracts butterflies. Bubble bees also flock to this sedum .
Propagation for resale purposes is prohibited as this is consider to be a patent plant. U. S. Plant Patent Applied For (PPAF).
Grows well in Full sun. Hardy to zone 4.
Happy Gardening
Diane Mumm