Scott Hildenbrand wrote:
HettieŽ wrote:
Scott Hildenbrand wrote:
From the looks of it and after checking a pile of sites to verify,
it does seem to be an ice plant which more often than not is used as
ground cover.
I *think* I saw some seeds for ice plant in T&M catalog, will have to
check the specifics on that. Here I thought it might be some exotic
strain of trailing portulaca :-)
Reminds me of my star stonecrop which I grow in a pot.. Looks great
trailing down the edge of the pot. 
Star stonecrop? I've never heard of that.
Whoops.. Star Sedum, aka Stringy Stonecrop.. See, this is why it's best
to use proper names.. (goes to find out proper name)
Sedum sarmentosum
Doesn't flower long though and it's tiny. But does look good hanging,
just not much height mass.
Thanks for the explanation. For all I knew, you were growing stones in
your pots like I had to resort to in mine to keep the chipmunks out :-).
Except somehow I thought maybe you got yours to trail and were pulling
my leg. Ridiculous, I know. I'll see if I can find something about
that one. Am kind of on overload with seeds, roses & perennial plants I
want to try, have next year pretty well mapped out, if I only get half
of what I've got going, I'll be doing well. Plus I have to allow for
failures.
I was having good luck with iresine trailing, grows very fast and long
to the point you have to cut it back depending, but wasn't as pretty the
second year in a window box with pink geraniums, grew well enough, but
something wasn't as nice about it, texture and color. Roots easily in
water, had pots and pots of it, ended up giving much of it away. Anyway
I fed them some Osmocote and never saw such huge geraniums. I had to
cut the iresine back because it touches the ground, so maybe I'll come
across something I like better, not lobelia, 2 windowboxes are going to
be dedicated to only that, blue and white mixed. I recommend the
iresine for dappled shade, but it doesn't take kindly to too much sun.
The iresine roots like crazy in water if you want more. The first year,
when the afternoon sun hit it, it was pretty bright red towards autumn.
It starts out green. I'm open to something else, it's only two years
but think I might replant that box before I set it out next spring.
Ever notice how something looks good in a photo or where somebody else
is growing it, you try it, it sometimes doesn't look so good if it grows
at all?