One of my running jokes when laying out any sedum plants on site is to randomly shout out: “Look, sedum here, sedum there, sedum bloody everywhere!” Recently, however, sedums have had a name change; their Latin name is now Hylotelephium. Fortunately, they are still generally called sedums (other common names include stonecrop or ice plant), so I can still laugh at my cheesy humour.
In the old days sedums were — understandably, but perhaps unfairly — tagged as “suburban plants”, with an extremely limited colour palette of mainly green and pink flowers. They have been rather re- invented in recent years. One factor is that plant breeders have capitalised on their natural attractiveness and widened their range — many now pack more of a
