Mom has a spot where she sprinkled some mixed seeds from a packet someone gave her. There were cone flowers & blanket flowers mixed in there. Of course, the cone flowers were the basic purple. I really liked them so I hope we can successfully grow them. I think the blanket flowers are really pretty and she could certainly use them in a lot of places for color.
The deer never used to eat the sedum, but two years ago, we had a doe with twins and she was HUNGRY. Our next door neighbor is the junk hole on the road - his front yard is so grown up you can’t see the house & that is where she stashed the twins while she was out & about. Once the twins were old enough, we saw them quite often. Anyway, that was the beginning of the sedum being eaten up. Either she’s still around & has developed a taste for them and/or the twins are copying their mom. We do have one big doe (twin mama, is that you?) hanging around this year - she goes & eats windfall apples under the old tree in the pasture, then my brother has seen her heading up our way so she’s probably checking out the salad bar. Mom has been covering the hostas with row cover at night & that has kept her from eating most of them.
A previous steer (Dinner) didn’t eat the Sedum, but he DID eat all the Hosta on the north side of the house!
They recovered nicely. Well, Dinner didn’t. ;)
Sedum make a VERY pretty Fall bouquet if you have various colors and textures. I made up bouquets and left them at the ends of our check out stands at the garden center. They got a lot of attention and I sold a LOT of Sedum for Fall planting. ;)
When I tire of my roses (fighting Japanese Beetles is getting really old!) I may pull them all out and plant nothing but Sedum in their place, all around the Greenhouse. :)