Enjoy near Dianthus g. 'Grandiflorus', Geranium Biokovo, Achillea 'Apple Blossom', or Sedum 'Autumn Joy'. Each leaf is tipped with rosy-bronze, and the entire plant glows bronze in the fall. Yellow blooms appear in early summer. Growing well in sun or part shade, this sedum is great cascading down slopes, over stones, or from planters. Designer Jimmy Stewart of Atlanta promotes this as an outstanding groundcover Sedum for the South.
Flowers then transform to pale pink and gradually change to dark pink.
In early fall flowers continue their transition to shades of coppery-red and mahogany. Reduce by half in early summer for full floriferous color. May need to divide every 3-4 years to keep full. A perfect edging sedum, remaining low and somewhat trailing, 'Vera' looks great rambling beneath artemesia and fountain grass. Tough, adaptable, and tolerating sun and drought, 'Vera' is at her best in fertile but well-drained soils.