This month on the Down the Garden Path podcast, landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss some of their favourite perennials. They begin with a look at a versatile classic, sedums. From shrub substitute to colourful ground cover, it's hard not to have a spot in your garden for a spectacular sedum.

Joanne and Matt kick off the month with a look at sedums, a perennial favourite.

Some of the questions and topics covered:

• What is the best soil for sedums?
• Matt discussed the Sunsparkler Sedum series.
• The versatility of sedums in your landscape
• Sedum mats
  • available in 1 x 2 foot rectangles to quickly cover an area with a dense thick mat of sedums
• Joanne spoke about attending Toronto Botanical Garden's annual garden tour Through the Garden Gate, exploring the Wychwood area of Toronto
• Matt talked about attending the Oshawa Peony Festival

Each week on Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes.

As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. A horticulturist and landscape designer, Matthew Dressing owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, they do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In their new book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and Matthew distill their horticultural and design expertise and their combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. It's now available on Amazon.