Touchdown™ Teak Sedum

Dark and mysterious foliage with bold blooms, it's easy to add a touch of mystery and enticing color saturation to your landscape with the distinct hues of Touchdown™ Teak Sedum (Sedum x 'Teak')! Featuring succulent, waxy foliage that is an intriguing deep, dark, brooding red-brown to purple!

Glossy foliage adds to the intrigue as does brighter red new growth. Colorfast and stout, these flowering ornamentals are able to stand up to the full sun without shrinking, fading, or flopping! Forming a dense upright mound that adds immense drama to any garden, Touchdown™ has a clump-forming growth habit and thick, sturdy stems in brilliant deep-red! These adaptable, hardy perennials bloom from late summer through autumn!

Touchdown™'s flower heads have equally dense growth and emerge a pale green cluster that matures to deep rose-red flower clusters the pollinators won't be able to resist! Their summer bloom time doesn't let up until fall frost! Then the blooms dry on the plant for winter interest and you can prune these off for a clean winter appearance, and use them as fresh cut flowers, or leave them for both winter interest or food for songbirds!

Heat and cold-hardy throughout USDA growing zones 4 to 9, there is very little that fazes this highly adaptable herbaceous perennial! Generally growing to 15 - 19 inches tall and about as wide, these compact perennial Stonecrops provide vertical and structural interest among other garden plants. Easy to grow, Sedum are perfect for gardeners of all experience levels!

Planting and Application:

Touchdown™ Teak Autumn Stonecrop creates a smoldering and unique border and perennial garden addition! Their unusual coloration and bold blooms add depth and drama to the garden landscape! Incredible contrast among your perennial beds and an amazing thriller in containers, Touchdown™ can also be used as cut flowers and dried décor.

Pair this dramatic perennial with other dark and mysterious plants like a Bella Lugosi Daylily, Purple Smokebushe, Dark Towers Penestemon, and Primo® Black Pearl Coral Bells for the opposite of a Moon Garden! Throw in some May Night Salvia to make your pollinators go gaga!

Go for the contrast with the lemony-golden leaves of Sun King Aralia, Lemon Ball Sedum, Ascot Rainbow Euphorbia, Martin's Spurge, UpTick™ Cream & Red Coreopsis, and Triple Treat Coral Bells for a chartreuse and purple color play that catches the eye and feeds hummingbirds and pollinators alike!

Standing upright in defiance of the sun without shrinking, the dense habit and thicker foliage Touchdown™ sports, fill your sunny beds with color all growing season. The attractive foliage is drought and salt-tolerant so plant these in that 'hell strip' along the road, and those in coastal areas can enjoy Sedum near ocean spray without worry. Any sunny bed, Rock Garden, and Cottage garden will be enchanted with these bewitching blooms and foliage, and Sedum is recommended for use around the fire-wise landscape!

Mass plantings in hot sunny locations are natural places to plant Sedum, and will be amplified enormously because of this incredible color combo! Upright structural and architectural texture makes these eye-catching plants really stand out!

• Distinctly-Hued Foliage in Dark Reddish-Brown
• Brightly Colored Rosy Flowers - Dense Heads
• Vigorous Tight Growth Habit - Upright Clump-Forming Perennial
• Thick Succulent Leaves & Dark-Red Stems
• Bees & Butterflies Love the Blooms!
• Winter Interest, Dried Décor & Food For Birds
• Dramatic Specimens, Facer Plants & Edging, Container Thrillers/Fillers
• En Masse Erosion Control, Fire-Wise & Xeric Gardens

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Full sun perennials like Touchdown™ Teak Sedum, tolerate heat and sun all day without fail. Handling some part sun in hotter climates, you will get the best color, strongest stems, and the most blooms in 6 hours or more of sunlight. Not particular about soil type, Stonecrop prefers average moisture and any kind of well-drained soil, and can also tolerate poor or rocky soils with ease. In fact, Sedum grown in organically rich soil are actually lanky and weak-stemmed.

Provide a 3-4 inch thick layer of arborist mulch for best results. Otherwise, these pest and disease-free, deer and rabbit-resistant plants require very little maintenance. Just prune the plant each spring to remove dead stems close to the ground, and every 3-5 years divide the clump to maintain vigor.

• Easy Care & Low Maintenance in Full Sun
• Thrives in Almost Any Well-Drained Soil Type
• Low Moisture Needs & Drought Tolerant Once Established
• Prune Down Early Spring & Divide Every 3-5 Years
• Cold & Heat Hardy, Deer & Rabbit Resistant, Salt & Drought Tolerant

For heat and sun-loving plants that are sure to score a goal in your landscape, you will love this Touchdown™ Teak Sedum! Order yours from Nature Hills Nursery today and earn some points in your neighborhood!