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Type: Sedum acre (Biting Stonecrop, Mossy Stonecrop, Goldmoss,).

Habitat: Found throughout Europe.

Shape & Texture: This adaptable garden plant forms low mats of twisting stems densely covered with tiny, rich green leaves

Growth & Flower: Approximately 10 cm tall, often sold as a ground cover plant. Yellow in colour. The leaves are small but the flowers are vibrant

Qualities: Actively used by Romans and Monks for it's purgative and medicinal qualities and is therefore often found on sites of monasteries.

Type: Sedum album, (white stonecrop)

Habitat: Throughout the UK and Europe

Shape & Texture: This Sedum forms dense, low mats of small, evergreen, jellybean shaped leaves which change in size throughout the seasons

Growth & Flower: This semi creeping sun loving plant ranges in colour from green through to orange and brick-red depending on light, temperature and soil-type

Qualities: This sedum will tolerate both sun and shade

Type: Spurium (Two row Stonecrop)

Habitat: Native to Europe

Shape & Texture: Provides good ground cover and forms rosettes of flat, scallop-shaped leaves on long, twisted stems

Growth & Flower: Fast growing with the following colouration; green leaves and pink/white flowers, the other has red/brown leaves and yellow flowers. Blooms in early Summer

Qualities: These plants may lose some of their foliage late in the season, leaving just the terminal leaves which take on a rich bronze colour well into the following spring. This plant excellent in both sun and shade and is also very tolerant of poor soil conditions

Type: Reflexum (Blue Stonecrop, Crooked Stonecrop). Also known as Sedum Rupestre

Habitat: Native to Central and Western Europe

Shape & Texture: Needle-like, bluish green leaves

Growth & Flower: Small, flat-topped clusters of yellow flowers in early summer

Qualities: Sturdy and upright

Type: Sexangulare (Tasteless Stonecrop)

Habitat: Widespread in central Europe

Shape & Texture: Tiny needle-like foliage along which the blooms are held on arching stems

Growth & Flower: Each stem has two to three branches carrying bright yellow flowers

Qualities: Commonly used for ground cover and will grow in almost soil-less conditions

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