Surviving Winter The Succulents That Can Take the Cold

Welcome back all. So join us today as we try and find some of the tougher frost hardy succulents that can actually survive the colder weather. Welcome back everyone. Thanks for joining us again on Phosphor and Grow. So we hope you had a chance to watch our previous video on how to treat frost affected succulents. That's a good segue into today's video which is what kinds of plants we grow in our garden that are frost tolerant. Yeah so with the decreasing temperatures it can indicate the beginning of a quiet time in the garden as many plant varieties will kind of prime themselves for dormancy over several months. However you can with good plant selection basically find a lot of cold resistant succulents which can handle lower temperatures many going down to zero degrees Fahrenheit or minus 18 degrees Celsius. Yeah some even further than that as well which shows you don't have to settle for a basic winter garden. Yeah and they look great. You get all sorts of different colours and textures specifically in those colder months when the rest of your garden may be you know sort of evergreen or you know completely leafless. So really helps with your garden in those colder months. One of the types of varieties of succulent we've got in our garden are Sempervivums otherwise known as hens and chicks. These are absolutely fantastic plants for the winter season. Yeah so with this as well you'll find that they're quite popular with succulent enthusiasts because there is a larger variety of them there's over 700 different types and they do tend to have very unique growth patterns and yeah colours. Yeah yeah they're very very beautiful plants for your garden and they look great en masse. Yeah so we do have various different types of succulent Sempervivums in our garden but some of the more prominent ones we have are Sempervivum arachnoidum, Sempervivum tectorum, Sempervivum forsaer as well as Sempervivum arachnoid rubrum and if you wanted to see more varieties and different types also just check out our other Sempervivum video online. Yeah so typically with Sempervivums you'll tend to see that they have a much thinner leaf so I might get you to come in bro just so we can have a bit more of a look with it and they will cover the whole surface of them some of them will also get a little bit of a hair or fur to the top of them and they'll tend to produce side buds which is consistent with their natural growth in crevices all year round. So Sempervivums are cold resistant and can live down to 14 degrees fahrenheit or minus 10 degrees celsius they make a wonderful fast-growing plant for creating a frost hardy garden. Yeah so next up we'll be talking about Sedums so we've got quite a different few varieties in the garden here and just to give a little bit of context for our garden we do tend to get very regular frosts throughout winter in Canberra and it can get down to about minus seven degrees celsius or about 20 degrees fahrenheit. Yeah so next up we have a really resilient species of succulent which is frost and drought tolerant called Sedum so with these guys in the colder weather you may find sometimes they do take a bit of a temporary death and when this happens they will tend to drop their leaves. If this does happen don't panic too much basically underneath that dead growth you'll usually find new foliage underneath and the plant will be likely to recover. Yeah so we've got a lot of different types of Sedum in our garden and we find that they last and grow extremely well during the winter months as well as summer but winter especially. Also another thing with Sedum that's important is that if you do get one from an arid region originally you need to make sure it doesn't get too much water during those winter months. So they are great plants just in terms of they do add a lot of year-round colour for your garden and the other great thing about them is they've got really beautiful foliage. Yeah exactly that's a couple of reasons I love them also they need very little attention so you can pretty much set and forget the Sedums once you find them a nice spot in the garden and they'll take care of themselves. The other thing is that I love about them is that they have a different colour different shapes and yeah just bring a different variety to the garden. Yeah so now we're just going to quickly chat through a few of the different Sedum types we have so stay tuned. Next up we're going to talk about a few of the Sedums we do have throughout our garden just giving you a little bit of a description of them and kind of the resilience they have. So one of the other types of Sedum we've got in our garden is the Blue Spruce so this one tolerates temperatures down to as low as minus 20 degrees celsius or minus 29 degrees fahrenheit so a very very hardy plant does die back a bit in the winter for us but yeah it makes a big mound during the warmer months. Next up we have Sedum clevitum so this is a great succulent which tends to have fleshy pale green to blue green leaves and it's tolerant of freezing temperatures and can withstand temperatures down to about 25 degrees fahrenheit or minus four degrees. So our next Sedum is the Golden Mound so this is a wonderful creeping ground cover which is great for rock gardens it also produces brilliant bright yellow flowers in spring and summer we find it can get down to minus seven degrees celsius or 20 degrees fahrenheit they do however tend to die back during the summer when it's very hot here. These are a beautiful Sedum in our garden. So another type of Sedum this is actually a Graptosedum so this is a hybrid this is a paddy peat so we've got these in several locations in the garden this one is a lot more pale colored it's less stressed with the cold because of its location near a lot of other shrubs what we'll do we'll actually show you another one that's got a much different red color much more red and orange yeah and we'll pop up a little bit of a video about that here this is one of our favorite plants because of the wide range of colors it gives us depending on the conditions that we've put it in. So the Graptosedum paddy peat actually gets down to minus four degrees celsius or 24 degrees fahrenheit. Yeah so next up we've got Sedum polyrhyzum which is a beautiful little ground cover which is covered in brown stems with little green miniature rosettes all across it this one is a particularly resilient Sedum throughout the winter months and can get down to about minus 20 degrees celsius or minus 29 degrees fahrenheit. So next up we're going to talk about a few of the different Sedum jellybean types we have in our garden so first of all we've got the blue jellybean here now you'll find with this one it's got great shape and clusters really well we've also got the red jellybean just further below here and these two do really well temperature wise in terms of they're quite tolerant down to about minus seven degrees as well as 20 degrees fahrenheit. Now we do have two more varieties apart from that and they are the giant jellybean as well as the pink jellybean which we have down over here now all these types you'll find cluster really really well and just add a lot of color and a bit of variety to your garden. So with the giant jellybean and pink jellybean just bear in mind they're a little bit less frost tolerant than the other two varieties and they'll tend to only go down to about minus three degrees celsius or 27 degrees fahrenheit. So here we have three different types of jellybean all next to each other so you've got your standard green and red you've got your blue jellybean and then peeking around the corner the small one is the pink jellybean they don't generally grow as quickly unfortunately but hopefully one day they're as big as the other two. So next to our Sedum polyrhyzum we've actually got the Sedum dazephyllum so these are a beautiful bluer colored Sedum amazing tiny little rosettes still quite frost and cold hardy but maybe not quite as much as some of the other ones we found we need to put it under a little bit more shelter so that's what we've done but these are an absolutely beautiful plant as well. So thanks again for joining us great to have you with us we hope you enjoyed our video on some of the cold hardy succulents we've got in our garden specifically the Sempervivums and the Sedums they are absolutely beautiful and we feel like they complement any garden well. Yeah very beautiful additions so make sure you keep an eye out for part two next week where we will cover a few other frost tolerant succulents such as Echeverias, Agaves, Aeoniums etc. So finally please make sure you reach out and let us know your experiences with growing succulents in colder climates we'd love to hear how you find that yeah and which plants you tend to grow and don't forget we've got plenty of other content on succulents and yeah how to grow them in so check it out. We'll see you soon.