{"id":1565,"date":"2011-07-26T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2012-03-07T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:15:13","slug":"move-over-aj-here-comes-t-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2011\/07\/26\/move-over-aj-here-comes-t-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over AJ, Here Comes T-Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1567\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SedumT-Rex1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1567\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1567\" title=\"SedumT-Rex\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SedumT-Rex1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SedumT-Rex1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SedumT-Rex1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SedumT-Rex1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;T-Rex&#39; Sedum (photo credit-www.PerennialResource.com)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For nearly half a century, \u2018Autumn Joy\u2019 has been the leading \u201cstonecrop\u201d or \u201clive forever\u201d sedum cultivar planted. More than once I\u2019ve heard this saying: \u201cif Autumn Joy won\u2019t grow in your garden, you should try another hobby. \u00a0\u2018T-Rex\u2019 is a terrific new hybrid and \u2018Autumn Joy\u2019 is one of its parents. \u2018T Rex\u2019 has better resistance to stem rot than many veteran sedum cultivars, including &#8216;Autumn Joy&#8217;. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Compact growing T-Rex barely reaches over two feet in height and its stout sturdy stems support the massive flower heads. The serrated blue-green foliage of T-Rex is another plus.<\/p>\n<p>By mid-July across the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7), cream colored floral buds have formed, open to light rose pink flowers in late summer, and finish reddish pink in mid-autumn. If left standing, the seed heads provide winter interest and food for birds. Sedums flowers attract copious numbers of bees and butterflies.<\/p>\n<p>T-Rex thrives in any average well-drained garden soil in full to partial (minimum 6 hours) sunlight. It requires no trimming, no deadheading, and no pinching. Very little, if any, watering is required once plants become established. Stonecrop sedums behave very shrub-like and are one of the easiest low maintenance choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly half a century, \u2018Autumn Joy\u2019 has been the leading \u201cstonecrop\u201d or \u201clive forever\u201d sedum cultivar planted. More than once I\u2019ve heard this saying: \u201cif Autumn Joy won\u2019t grow in your garden, you should try another hobby. \u00a0\u2018T-Rex\u2019 is a terrific new hybrid and \u2018Autumn Joy\u2019 is one of its parents. \u2018T Rex\u2019 has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[657,707,747,749,630,748,706,646,1,113,655],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}