Another Recycled Fountain

This bear fountain is a favorite. It is surrounded by late summer flowers-sedum and rudbeckia with yellow lamium hanging down from above.

Sedum Rooting

My favorite fall flower is the sedum because of its beauty and its sturdiness. 

I decided to root some stems this summer.  I just put them in the ground or in a pot and kept them watered occasionally.  They are the easiest thing I have rooted. 

My husband made me a shady bed where I put some roots and some needy plants.  You can see how well the sedum is doing after a few months.

Snapdragons

Usually snapdragons don't survive for two blooming years.  I bought these last fall for almost nothing and they have bloomed all summer.  Perhaps it is because of the excess water from the nearby fountain.

Sedum

Few flowers contribute more to the garden than the sedum.  Its sturdy foliage adds texture to the garden early in the growing season.  Then pink, or rosy, or white blossoms appear and stay past frost.  The flower heads remain through the winter.  It spreads, sending up new shoots every year to be shared with neighbors and friends.  I got the sedum from my mother who got it from a neighbor. The most common kind, and my favorite as you can see, is Autumn Joy.  It seems more sturdy than the white variety.  Not even drought or freeze stops the spreading of this great garden plant.