In message , John
McMillan writes
Reginald Farrer (always good for a laugh...) was delightful on the
genus. "Sedum - This vast race as a whole, is curiously uninteresting:
as is felt even by catalogues, that do their best, yet cant say much,
and take refuge in an inextricable welter of synonyms and pseudonyms.
Nearly all Sedums are of easy culture in open poor places often far
too easy of cultivation, and yet more deplorably easy of propagation.
The race is far too large and dim for us here minutely to
discriminate." Not a promising start but he goes on to describe over
sixteen pages nearly 200 species in cultivation at the time (1919).
quoted from http://northants.bcss.org.uk/nl161/nl161odds.htm

Odd - for some reason I'll never understand, I find sedums endlessly
amusing....

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Klara, Gatwick basin