Witch's Moneybags (Hylotelephium telephium)

How much light does a Witch's Moneybags need?

The only light requirement documented for this plant outdoors is full sun. Full sun is defined as six or more hours of direct sunlight each day. Give it a planting site that receives this much direct sun outdoors every day. Full sun is also the preferred outdoor exposure for this plant.

• Light: Full sun¹

How often to water a Witch's Moneybags

Outdoors, Hylotelephium telephium takes water levels that range from dry to medium. It does not need water levels above medium. Dry to medium is the full range listed for this plant's outdoor watering needs. Both ends of that range, dry and medium, are listed as suitable for this plant outdoors.

• Water: Dry to medium¹

Best soil for a Witch's Moneybags

This plant's soil needs good drainage above all else outdoors. The soil can stay well drained and moist, or run dry occasionally. It also prefers sandy or shallow, rocky soil outdoors. Soil pH for this plant ranges from 6 to 8, a neutral to slightly alkaline band. That covers most garden soils, from neutral up through mildly alkaline. Well drained soil that is sometimes moist and sometimes dry both suit this plant outdoors.

• Soil drainage: Well drained, moist and occasionally dry¹
• Soil pH: pH 6–8¹

Hardiness and temperature

This plant is hardy outdoors across USDA zones 3a through 9b. That span starts at the cold end, zone 3a, and finishes at the warm end, zone 9b. Every zone in between, from 3a to 9b, falls within this documented range. This zone range is the only hardiness detail recorded for the plant outdoors.

• Hardiness: Zones 3a–9b¹

How to plant a Witch's Moneybags

Plant Hylotelephium telephium outdoors within USDA hardiness zones 3a to 9b. This range covers everything from the coldest listed zone, 3a, to the warmest, 9b. Gardeners anywhere inside that zone range can plant it outdoors. Division is one documented way to start new plants when planting outdoors. At maturity, this plant reaches 2-2.5 ft (0.61-0.76 m) tall and spreads 1.5-2 ft (0.46-0.61 m) wide. Space new plants about 1.5 to 2 ft (0.46-0.61 m) apart outdoors.

• Hardiness: Zones 3a–9b¹

Winter care

Zone 3a is the coldest zone in which this plant is listed as hardy outdoors. Zone 9b is the warmest zone included in that same hardiness listing. Together, these mark the full range, 3a through 9b, documented for this plant. This hardiness range is the extent of the winter-related information documented for it.

• Hardiness: Zones 3a–9b¹

How to propagate a Witch's Moneybags

You can propagate Hylotelephium telephium by division, stem cuttings or leaf cuttings. Divide established plants in spring to start new ones. Take stem cuttings in summer as another way to propagate this plant. Leaf cuttings are also a documented way to propagate it, alongside division and stem cuttings. All three methods, division, stem cutting and leaf cutting, are listed for this plant outdoors.

• Propagation: Division, stem cuttings and leaf cuttings¹

Common problems

Slugs, scale insects, mealybugs, nematodes, aphids and weevils are the pests recorded for this plant. It can also develop fungal or bacterial crown rot and root rot. These are the pest and disease problems documented for Hylotelephium telephium outdoors. Both crown rot and root rot can affect this plant, alongside the pests listed above.

• Common pests: slugs, scale insects, mealybugs, nematodes, aphids and weevils¹
• Common diseases: crown rot and root rot¹

Questions and answers

What light does Hylotelephium telephium need outdoors?

Give it full sun outdoors, which means six or more hours of direct sunlight a day. This is the only outdoor light requirement documented for this plant.

What pests and diseases affect this plant outdoors?

Slugs, scale insects, mealybugs, nematodes, aphids and weevils are the pests recorded for it. It can also develop crown rot and root rot.

How do you propagate Hylotelephium telephium outdoors?

You can propagate it by division in spring, by stem cuttings in summer, or by leaf cuttings. All three methods are documented for this plant.