Sedum

[Pearly]

I'm not sure exactly what kind of sedum this is but I have plenty of it to transplant some for ground cover in babies' garden, but not sure if it'd be ok in case they decided to have a taste. I know some sedums are not ok. Now my babies don't graze a whole lot, they only recently started chomping on my pansies/petunias/violas and have always loved hunting for the snails, so I don't think there'll be very much grazing temptation (they get plenty of good food in their prepared meals). I'm just looking for different ground over options to make things looking clean and pretty.

 

[Yelloweyed]

It looks like this?

 

[Pearly]

It looks like this?

View attachment 171245

Yeap! That's it! Well the "golden carpet" is not going into the tortoise garden thank you

 

[MPRC]

My parent's have tons and tons of this stuff too and I was bummed I couldn't use it.

 

[Pearly]

how about this one?

 

[JoesMum]

View attachment 171334 how about this one?

No idea what it's called, but I put 5 big ones in my back garden because I like them and he ate every single one to the ground in a day while I was at work.

He's alive, but only because I didn't carry out my threat to kill him. The plant didn't do him any harm. I haven't replanted.

 

[JoesMum]

It's this one - Iceplant. Tortoise Table agrees with Joe that it's safe. Don't expect it to last long.

http://m.thetortoisetable.org.uk/m/plants_19.asp?st=true&mode=main&catID=196

 

[Pearly]

It's this one - Iceplant. Tortoise Table agrees with Joe that it's safe. Don't expect it to last long.

http://m.thetortoisetable.org.uk/m/plants_19.asp?st=true&mode=main&catID=196

Thanks! I didn't realize it was called ice plant. I have couple of ice plants that I'm preconditioning to plant in the tort garden but all those are creeping type. I love se dumps bcs of their looks and ease of propagation. That big tall one with pink flowers I take all the pruned off branches with or without flowers and just stick them in the ground, and ... they grow!!!

 

[Pearly]

It's this one - Iceplant. Tortoise Table agrees with Joe that it's safe. Don't expect it to last long.

http://m.thetortoisetable.org.uk/m/plants_19.asp?st=true&mode=main&catID=196

So far I have it growing in the flowers bed where the babies have been going and they haven't shown interest. They seem preoccupied with the snails, petunias and pansies.
I laughed imagining your face when Joe ate your plants down to the ground too funny!!!

 

[JoesMum]

There are a number of different plants called ice plant, so check them out individually with Tortoise Table.

The one like that comes in different colours and they're OK, it's things with different leaves you need to watch out for

 

[Pearly]

There are a number of different plants called ice plant, so check them out individually with Tortoise Table.

The one like that comes in different colours and they're OK, it's things with different leaves you need to watch out for

It seems that the broadleaf types are much better and I happen to have a bunch of different ones of that kind

 

[Iochroma]

View attachment 171334 how about this one?

That is an herbaceous perennial that used to be called a Sedum, but are now properly Hylotelephium.