Plant in full sun to partial shade in well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally - can handle periods of drought but looks best with regular to periodic watering. This plant is very hardy and can be used in all garden zones in California (Hardy to USDA Zone 3). It is an easy, tough plant that is great in hanging baskets, rock gardens, raised planters, in containers or as a groundcover so long as drainage is adequate. Though this plant has proven itself elsewhere, it seems to only lasts a couple years in the ground here in the mediterranean climate of California. We recommend this plant for use in containers or for a tough short lived accent planting.

Sedum rupestre is a species that ranges through central and western Europe from sand dunes near sea level up to 7,000 feet in the Pyrenees Mountains and was introduced in the Middle Ages to Ireland as a salad crop. The name for the genus comes from the Latin word 'sedo' meaning "to sit," in reference to the manner in which some species attach themselves to stones or walls. The specific epithet means "rock loving" from the Latin word 'rupes' meaning "cliff" or "rock" in reference to where this species typically grows. In 1984 Sedum rupestre and related plants previously considered part of a series called the Rupestria group or Sedum rupestre group were segregated from the very large cosmopolitan and polyphyletic genus Sedum and placed in a new genus called Petrosedum by the Czch botanist Vit Grulich and Sedum rupestre was redescribed that same year as Petrosedum rupestre by the English botanist Paul V. Heath, but even more than forty years later this plant is still most commonly listed by nurseries as a Sedum so we continue to list it as such as well. The prefix 'petro' means "rock" so the combination means "rock sedum".

The cultivar 'Angelina' was discovered by Mr. Christian Kress of Sarastro Nursery in Austria. Mr. Kress saw the plant in a private garden while vacationing in Croatia and he named it Angelina, after the wife of owner of the garden. This plant long had a US Plant Patent pending but the application was filed in 2002, just as the patent office was changing rules regarding prior sales and plant patents. This plants patent fell victim to these rule changes and the patent was formally abandoned in September 2008. We have been selling this plant since 2003. 

The information about Sedum rupestre 'Angelina' that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.