There is still another beautiful patch of lush green lawn (I mean evil water hogging threat to western civilization) remaining, but it will need to wait a while to meet it's doom.
I have been thinking about and doing some research on this project for a while now. When I found a company that sells bulk sedum cuttings for green roofs I thought I had found the solution. Unfortunately they would not sell to me or my gardener so I was wondering how I could proceed. My inspiration began with using this sedum sod purchased from Lowes for some landscaping work at my mother in laws home.
My original thinking was to purchase as many as I could and cut each flat into 20-30 plugs. But I could only find 4 flats and a few containers of this low growing , mixed sedum I have ordered 10 more flats but am too cheap to just buy enough to fill in the entire area. As I was loading these into my trunk and seeing lots of little pieces break off, it occurred to me that these were essentially the cuttings I had wanted to purchase in bulk. Why not just take a scissors to these flats and spread the cuttings but keep the flats growing for a supply to fill in the gaps and eventually expand to the next yard? I, for one, think this plan is inspired. Todays plan is to take some flagstone from the old patio (currently on track for destruction when we tear down then rebuild our garage - perhaps another blog topic) and make a path through the yard so we can get to the mailbox without walking through damp grass (or dry sedum) and people who walk up the driveway have a way to get to the door.
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