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Enviromat UK - Low Maintenance Sedum Landscaping
Description
The group of plants known as Sedums are just one member of the plant family 'Crassulaceae' sometimes referred to as stonecrops.
The whole of the Crassulaceae family consists of succulent plants such as sedums and their cousins semperveriums (house leeks). The family takes its scientific name form the latin word "crassus" meaning "thick", in reference to the fleshy leaves common to all members.
The word "Sedum" is taken from the latin "sedo" meaning to sit and probably refers to the way in which sedum plants seem to sit on rocks, walls, ledges and other seemingly inhospitable places. There are about 400 different types of sedum varying in height, colour and flowering season. Most of them are evergreen and very easy to care for.