Lemon Ball Sedum

Sedum mexicanum ‘Lemon Ball’ | Syn. Sedum rupestre

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7a-11 Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Succulent

Height Maturity: 4-6″

Width at Maturity: 24″+
Spacing: 18-24″ apart for mass planting

Growth Habit / Form: Carpet Forming, Dense, Spreading/Trailing

Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast

Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Type: Single

Flower Size: Small
Flowering Period: Summer

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Bright Chartreuse Yellow to Chartreuse in Spring and Summer; Red and Orange Shades in Winter

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun (6 hours or more per day)

Water Needs: Low

Soil Type: Clay(Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Moist But Well Drained to Dry

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention, Butterflies, Pollinators

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

Exceptionally easy to grow and drought tolerant, Lemon Ball Sedum is a great garden and container plant with screaming chartreuse yellow foliage. Though it looks like Sedum ‘Angelina’, Lemon Ball is brighter yellow and more heat tolerant. The soft and rubbery golden spruce-like foliage makes for a great textural and color contrast when mixed with other succulents and any other plants that prefer life on the sunny and dry side. Bright yellow flowers top the foliage in spring but they tend to blend with the foliage. At right around 6 inches tall and 3 feet wide, this is a shining sensation in rock gardens and containers.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 4 to 6 inches tall and spreading 24 inches or more wide, the Lemon Ball Sedum is ideal for use as a groundcover plant or in borders along walkways and paths or around patios. Very nice around rocks and boulders or spilling over walls. Also serves nicely as a soil cover and spiller plant in container gardens. A fine addition to rock gardens, succulent gardens and yellow theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 18-24 inches apart for mass planting

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Growing Preferences

The Lemon Ball Sedum is easy to grow in most any average well-drained soil and at least 6 hours of sunlight per day. Brighter yellow foliage with more sun. As with most other types of succulent plants it does not like a constantly soggy soil.

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These plants have thrived in full Florida sun and partial shade. They fill in window boxes and cascade over the edges.—————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG