How to Transplant Sedum

Gardeners seeking a versatile and easy bedding plant often choose sedum for their flowerbeds and borders. Sedum is a succulent plant and thrives readily in most sunny locations in a landscape. Sedum is also an easy plant to transplant from place to place in your landscape. Sedum tolerates the stress of transplanting quite well at almost any time of the year.

Things You'll Need

• Shovel
• Garden spade
• Water

Instructions

1. Watch the sedum plants for indications that the plant needs dividing. If the center of the plant falls over and will not support the blossoms, it is time to divide and transplant the sedum plants.

2. Use the shovel to dig up the sedum plants you want to transplant. Carefully insert the tip of the shovel approximately 6 inches outside the base of the plant and begin to loosen the soil around the plant. Work your way around the entire perimeter of the plant with the shovel to loosen the plant from the soil. Angle the shovel in under the root ball to remove the entire root system from the ground.

3. Lift the sedum plant out of the soil with the shovel and place it onto the ground to examine. If you need to divide the plant, carefully insert the garden spade into the center of the sedum plant to divide it in half. Work the spade through the plant so you have two halves of the plant.

4. Prepare the new planting location for the newly divided plants. Dig holes that are deep enough that the sedum plants will be slightly deeper than they were in their previous location.

5. Place the sedum plants into the prepared holes and refill the soil around the plants. Tamp down the soil firmly with your hands.

6. Water the newly transplanted sedum plants generously immediately after planting. Do not let them dry out during the first two weeks after transplanting to lessen the transplant stress on the plants.

References

• Sedum
• Growing Sedum