Kamnelomka - quite popular decorative, not requiring special care, a perennial plant grown as a indoor and as a garden. The most effective stoneframes look in rock gardens, on rocky areas, alpine hills, where it is difficult for other plants to grow. The saxifrage has about 450 species of saxifrage. We give examples of the most popular of them.
Scenery saxifrage (Saxifraga cespitosa)
The stoneworm turfy is a grassy perennial plant that prefers stony slopes, and its habitat is Eurasia and North America. The height of the plant is 13-20 cm. It has a thick stalk covered with glands. The leaves are dark green: the lower ones are five-segmented, palmate-separate, linear with rounded tips, and the upper ones are small, solid or tripartite. The wedge-shaped winged petiole, and the fruit - a split box with many seeds. There are white, purple and pink small flowers. It blooms in June (25-30 days) quite abundantly and amicably, this also applies to its hibernation. Seeds ripen in late July. With its appearance, the saxifrage is sodny like an airy, but dense pillow. This species is rarely used in culture. 
Important! Gardeners often use hybrids, which are obtained by crossing the stonegrass turf and rosemary kamnelomku.
Sailorbird Arends (Saxifraga androsacea)
This is a perennial ornamental herbaceous evergreen or semi-evergreen plant. The leaves of the saxifrage Arendsa glossy, separate, rich green color, collected in the outlet. The flowers are round, pentagonal, bell-shaped, with a double perianth and a dark green calyx, red, pink, yellow, purple, violet or white. Fruits - a split box with small seeds in large quantities. The height of the plant is no more than 10–20 cm. In the process of growth, dense thickets are formed, which in their appearance resemble forest moss. 
The stone-sawed stone of Arends blooms in May-June for about a month. It develops well and grows in northern latitudes. The plant loves half-shaded areas, moisture-loving, grows quickly, propagates by petioles or by division. Ideal for decoration of stony gardens and plots.
Did you know? The saxifrage is also called "ripping-grass". The same name in mythology has a mythical plant, a potion from which destroys iron.
Stirliflower saber (Saxifraga aizoides)
Perennial herbaceous culture with creeping stem, which in the process of growth forms friable wood. The plant does not exceed in height of 20 cm. Leaves can be either oval, or linear, oblong, rather rigid, jagged along the edges. The flowers of rockframes stikstolistnoy small, yellow with red almost invisible dots. Flowering occurs in June-July. This plant is unpretentious, winter-hardy, but it needs a moist and calcium-rich soil and a semi-dark spot. It grows well in open ground and at home. In nature, it is distributed in the northern regions of Asia, North America and Europe. 
Round-leaved kamnelomka (Saxifraga rotundifolia)
Beautiful perennial grassy unpretentious plant. The stems of the round-leaved saxiframe are branched, reaching a height of 30 cm. The leaves are dense, round, shiny, dark green, bud-shaped, jagged. The flowers are small, white with red small specks on the petals. It blooms very generously from the end of May and the whole summer. Prefers shady wet places. The homeland of round-leaved kamnelomki is the foothills of southern and central Europe. 
Kamnelomka weaving (Saxifraga stolonifera)
Herbal low-growing unpretentious perennial ornamental plant with elongated filament rooting lashes. The plant height is about 20 cm. The leaves of saberworm are woven round, thyroid, with large dentate wavy edges, gathered into a socket, there are also many thin reddish shoots (mustaches), at the ends of which more daughter leaf rosettes develop. The upper side of the leaves is green with white veins, and the bottom is red. Flowers are collected in complex white or reddish brushes. Plant blooms from May to September. Loves shady places and diffused light. The birthplace of saxifrage weaving is China, Japan. There are 350 species. 
Important! The plant is endowed with glands, which emit lime, which allows it to extract useful substances from stony soil.
Manchurian saxifrage (Saxifraga manschuriensis)
This is a decorative dwarf perennial plant. The banks of the forest rivers, thick grass on wet soil, not mowed last year's grasses are the natural habitats of Manchurian saxifrage. This species is found in Primorye, Korea, China. In the process of plant growth, numerous roots are formed, located closer to the soil surface. The leaves are shiny, rounded, toothed, dense, dark green, collected in the outlet. The flowers are small, pink-white, gathered in loose capitate inflorescences. Stems are strong, straight, thick-haired. It blooms in late summer and early autumn. It is famous for its abundant fruiting. Favorable for her shaded areas with diffused light. Ideal to decorate rockeries, alpine slides, shores of ponds. 
Stoneworm paniculata or forever (Saxifraga paniculata)
This is a decorative perennial plant that grows in its original form on granite protrusions, on limestone slopes, on rocks and on stony soils. North America, the Caucasus, and Europe are the habitats of saber-frying eelthorn. The plant has a height of 10 cm. The foliage is toothed, oblong, narrow, pointed, gristly, jawed-toothed at the edges, gray-green or blue-green in color, which forms a rosette and forms an evergreen thick carpet. Small flowers, gathered in paniculate inflorescences, white or whitish-yellow. 
Important! The varieties of red, cream and light yellow flowers are also derived, sometimes with red dots on the petals.
The flowering of saxifrage paniculata occurs in late May - early June. The plant is unpretentious, but prefers humus, loose, rich in calcium, fairly moist, slightly acidic soils. Reproduced by dividing the bush or rhizome. Often, the saxifrage paniculate is decorated with perennial rocky gardens, curbs, retaining walls, rockeries, rock gardens and so on.
Kamnelomka juniper (Saxifraga juniperifolia)
Comes from the highlands of the Caucasus. It is a perennial, dense, slowly growing, winter-covering ground-cover plant. The leaves of the stoneframe juniper are rigid, sharp-faced, small, glossy, dark green, which grow from the soil and form a thick pillow. Plant height - 15 cm. Flowers are yellow, small, five-leaf, collected in spike-like inflorescences that appear in spring. Likes loose, well-drained, slightly alkaline soil. In March, it is planted in greenhouse buildings, and in April - in open ground. It blooms in June. 
Kamnelomka shadow (Saxifraga umbrosa)
Perennial herbaceous evergreen frost-resistant decorative culture comes from the Pyrenees mountains, which will require wet and shady places. The foliage of the plant is dense, dark green, leathery, obovoid, short-petiolate, large-sized at the edges, rounded at the tips, up to five centimeters long and assembled in low dense rosettes. Flowers are small, light pink, multiple, composed in paniculate inflorescences, they rise on peduncles to a height of 10-15 cm. Seeds are contained in small boxes. The flowering period of this type of saxifrage is the end of June - the beginning of July (25-30 days). 
Stonefire (Saxifraga oppositifolia)
Perennial herbaceous flower, in preference of which stony rocks, placers, places near glaciers, crevasses. The plant creates dense cushion thickets. Stems branched, creeping, 5-7 cm in length (sometimes up to 15 cm). Numerous dark green opposite elliptical thickened leaves. The flowers of the plant are single, large (up to 2 cm in diameter), pink or purple by the end of summer. It is distinguished among others rather early flowering (in early spring). Applied in the decoration of alpine slides. Propagated by division and seeds. 
Did you know? The flower of the stonewall is one of the symbols of Londonderry and Nunavut.
Cesium saberjack or sisolist (Saxifraga caesia)
Sisolithic saxifrage is a herbaceous perennial ornamental culture with a thin rhizome forming thick turfs from branching shoots. Its habitat is limestone cliffs. White flowers with erect ascending peduncles. Cesium saberjackle blooms in July-August. Requires careful maintenance and proper attention. 
Kamnelomka hawk-leaved (Saxifraga hieracifolia)
Perennial herb that grows in the tundra, willow trees, alders, meadows. North America, Europe, Scandinavia are the sites of the spread of the stone-sawing hawkfish. Its height is from 10 to 50 cm. The leaves are jagged at the edges, thick, diamond-shaped, pubescent from below, made up in a rosette. The flowers of the plant are nondescript, greenish or reddish color, with fruit boxes. Peduncles short. It blooms in July and August.
