How to Use sedum in a Sentence

sedum

noun

• The couple rented a crane to hoist six big bags of dirt and three pallets of sedum tiles up to the roof.
  — Michelle Higgins, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• The only things that have done well there thus far are baptisia and sedum.
  — Carol Stocker, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2022
• Dried sedum, with its billowing seed head, looks like the archetype of a leafy tree.
  — Michael Tortorello, New York Times, 8 May 2018
• The potting shed is in the process of being updated and will soon have a live roof topped with sedum.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
• Thomas Fretz, for instance, has extreme close-ups of sedum, aloe and agave plants that are gently colored with shades of pink and white.
  — Mike Giuliano, baltimoresun.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• On top of a tool shed is a green roof made of sedum and solar panels to fuel garden equipment.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
• There are other sedums native to Oregon as well, though these may be harder to find.
  — oregonlive, 27 Oct. 2019
• The green roof has campanula, sedum and some grasses on it.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2020
• Although the habit and shape are similar, Creeping Jenny does not have thick, fleshy leaves like this sedum.
  — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2020
• Sedums may lose their leaves, or even recede underground to their root systems for the season.
  — Jessica Mattern, Country Living, 24 May 2017
• The leaves of echeverria, sedum, crassula and kalanchoe take time to grow, but stem cuttings are faster.
  — Leslie Crawford, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Rocky Mountains Plant Succulents and sedums are easy to propagate from any pieces that break off from the parent plant.
  — Thad Orr, Sunset Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
• Other species that are native to higher or drier areas, such as pines and sedums, will struggle.
  — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2017
• Autumn Joy sedum and speedwell, a purple flower that reminded me of a gnome’s hat, were still going strong.
  — Betsy Vereckey, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2022
• Pink blooms on this upright sedum darken to wine-red from August to October on reddish stems.
  — Thad Orr, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2021
• Exterior walls are made of aluminum or basalt, to withstand seawater and snowstorms, and roofs are softened with planes of sedum and grass.
  — Eve M. Kahn, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• McMahon noted that sedum is widely used on rooftop gardens.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
• In the past, Succulent Studios has sent out plants like string of pearls, Pachyphytum oviferum 'Moonstones,' and blue spruce sedum.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
• There are zinnias, daylilies, coral bells, hostas, different kinds of sedum, spotted dead nettle (lamium), vinca, thyme, sage and oregano.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2021
• Standing in front of a handsome, eco-friendly house in Cannon Beach, your eyes move up the cedar shake exterior walls to a roof planted in sedum and wild strawberries.
  — Janet Eastman, oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2019
• In summer, or in the greenhouse, these hens-and-chicks rosettes are Granny Smith green with reddish tips, while the sedum’s scalloped leaves are pale green with purple edges, the plants loaded with clusters of starry yellow flowers.
  — Debra Lee Baldwin, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Autumn Joy sedums define the lot’s sunny boundary and green-and-white-striped hostas claim the one shaded by a grove of mature evergreen trees whose branches open like an umbrella’s high above the garden.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 29 Jan. 2017
• Among their favorites: Asters, lantana, lavender, goldenrod, sedum and anything in the mint family.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 6 Oct. 2017
• There are perennials – like ornamental grasses, coneflower, Joe-Pye weed, sedum and black-eyed Susan – that provide birds with much-need seeds and insects with places to spend the winter.
  — oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2020
• Prune ornamental grasses, sedum, hydrangea and buddleia to a height of 6-12 inches before new growth appears.
  — Korky Vann, courant.com, 26 Apr. 2017
• Plants to avoid deadheading include Autumn Joy sedum, rudbeckia, and coneflowers, which birds enjoy snacking on in the winter.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 8 Nov. 2022
• Vegetable beds are bordered by Cor-Ten steel, the garden shed has a living sedum roof and the property is populated by birdhouses as well as bee and butterfly nesting boxes.
  — oregonlive, 6 July 2022
• Make sure sedum has full sun. 4 Portulaca Portulaca, also called moss rose, is a low-growing annual that’s absolutely covered in blooms every day for weeks and weeks.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 21 Feb. 2023
• The nursery grows more than 650 varieties including many different kinds of haworthia, kalanchoe, senecio, aeonium and sedum.
  — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 15 Dec. 2017
• Sedums and ornamental grasses generally do well in full southern sun.
  — Michelle Higgins, New York Times, 23 June 2017

Last Updated: 1 Aug 2024