Sedum Rupestre 'Lemon Ball' is a moderate growing groundcover plant, perennial plant and succulent plant that can be grown in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 6A through 9B. It matures to an average height of 1 inch to 1 foot and an average width of 4 feet to 6 feet, depending on climate and other environmental factors. It prefers growing in a location that provides full sun and grows best when planted in sand or loam soil that is well drained. In the spring, summer and fall Lemon Ball Sedum produces blue, navy blue and bright blue flowers. The foliage is medium green and dark green in color. It attracts butterflies and hummingbirds and is resistant to deer, drought and heat.

Lemon Ball Sedum can be useful in the landscape in mass plantings, in containers or planters, as a border or edger, as a groundcover, in hanging baskets, in landscape beds or islands or in small groupings and also in rock or xeriscape gardens, theme gardens or perennial gardens.

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Lemon Ball is one of the most colorful of the sedums, and certainly lives up to its name. It is a dependable, drought-tolerant, high quality plant with yellow-green foliage that keeps its color all summer long. It has a spreading, mounded habit that is both neat and vigorous. The spruce-like foliage does not flop apart in the center, but stays very dense and bushy. This one has done great in our gardens.

Lemon Ball Sedum is awesome grown in a terra cotta pot or hanging basket where it spills over the edge in just a few weeks. It gets it's name for the color and the "ball" of growth it will create around a pot when used singly, as in the picture to the right. The gorgeous yellow foliage is beautiful when planted next to dark leaved plants. It is also useful as a groundcover or border in garden beds and rock gardens.

Because it is a succulent, Lemon Ball Sedum is exceptionally drought tolerant and easy to grow. Provide very well-drained soil adding gravel if necessary to improve drainage. It prefers full sun but will tolerate some shade.

Lemon Ball Sedum is robust, low maintenance and easy to establish.  The dense, colorful foliage looks attractive year round in the border planting.

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