Hearing name "stonecrop", we immediately recall a modest groundcover with bright yellow flowers. it sedumIt is remembered for its flowers.
Otherwise, among the brighter surroundings, who would pay attention to him, as well as the hundreds of his less vibrant relatives in the bloom?
Our article describes in detail the type of stonecrop Matron, as well as its planting, care and photos of the plant.
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Counts them about 600 species and subspecies, and they occupy, by virtue of their unpretentiousness, all corners on Earth, where only the most unpretentious plants can survive.
Most of the stonecrops are plants of the ground cover type, but there are species with a pronounced upright stem.
These include stonecrop prominent matronahe hails from northeastern China.
Thanks to beautiful colors and easy growing stonecrop prominent found widespread in landscape design and among amateur flower growers, which prompted breeders to develop new, interesting varieties, and among them, the matron grade of stonecrop.
Appearance
Sight prominent matrona - a bush up to 60 centimeters, flowers are small, white-pink, gathered in inflorescences-shields from 10 to 20 centimeters in diameter, leaves are dense, shiny with a slight purple tinge, collected in whorls.
Plant blooms from mid-July to the onset of extreme cold. Autumn winds do not interfere with the flowering of this amazing plant, durable bush does not fall apart, its appearance does not suffer at all.
The variety Matrona appeared in our gardens in the nineties of the last century, and interest in it only grows.
Variety Matron does not require any special care, timely watering and weeding, loosening the soil - this is enough for the plants to develop well, richly and continuously bloom.
The life of elegant bushes depends on the quality of care for them.
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Sedum (mat):
Care
Choosing a landing site
Sedum prominent, including variety Matron, wonderful material in the hands of a landscape designer, it does not need to be used as ground-cover stonecrops - for masking poorly visible places.
Sight is good in itself, he is the decoration of any place wherever he is planted, and it should be planted in sunny places, only in the sun its colors will play in all its glory, in the shade the plant will release thin shoots with small inflorescences, and then it will just wither.
Grade Matron combined with stonecrop prominent other varieties, create an amazingly beautiful picture.
Soil preparation
Sedum can grow even in crevices of rocks the quality of the soil is not important, stonecrop prominent loves sandy soil.
Preparing a place for planting stonecrops, mineral fertilizers for digging do not need to be enough humus. If the ground is too heavy, you need to add a small amount of sand.
Landing
Young plants are planted in the spring, the distance between the bushes should not be less than 50 centimeters, the thickening of the plantings is reduced to shallowing of leaves and flowers, weakening of the plants as a whole.
Matron's seedling seedlings are watered abundantly during planting, and then, if necessary, an excess of moisture will lead to the death of the plants.
It is not necessary to plant stonecrop in the autumn, they may not have time to take root and freeze. At one place, stonecrops can grow from 3 to 6 years old, aging plants lose their decorative effect and need to be replaced by young ones, planting them in the same place, having previously dug up the soil and fertilized it with humus.
Preparing for the winter
The Matron variety blooms from July to frost, but it will be better if, before the onset of cold weather, you properly prepare the plant for adverse conditions.
Stems need to be cut off, sprinkle a bush with humus, forming a low mound and leave the sedum until spring. Cut flowers do not throw, they are still so good! Put them in the water.
Breeding
Matron's Sight is propagated in two ways..
Inflorescences
Sedum, including the visible, very easy to multiply, rooted, even the stems of cut and put in the water inflorescences.
It is enough just to cut off the withered shields of flowers, and leave the stems in the water, and soon you will notice actively growing roots, and that is how the young plant has formed.
You can leave it in the water until spring, constantly adding fresh water, or you can plant young sedums in containers and in the spring transplant the already rooted seedlings to a permanent place.
This breeding method can be used during the summer.by cutting the stalks and rooting them in the same way, even without a root germination in water, the stem planted in the soil will root.
The plants propagated in this way have all the qualities of a mother bush, which means that the bush for breeding must be chosen with the best data, strong, with bright, large flowers.
Seed propagation
Brightly blooming hybrid forms can only be obtained by sowing seedsThis is a troublesome thing, but the result is worth it, since the new plants inherited a variety of unpredictable qualities as a result of free pollination.
In March or April, the seeds are sown in a box with fertile soil, plentifully watered, better with a sprayer, covered with glass and placed on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for 2 weeks.
After 2 weeks, the box is set on the window, the germination rate of the seeds is different, do not rush to throw out the box, be patient.
It only makes sense to collect seeds from the Matrona variety if you only have bushes of Matrona variety, otherwise you will treat hybrid forms of free pollination.
Sedum or Sedum have many synonyms: violin, feverish grass, hare cabbage, young, hernial grass, zhivuchka, promnikom, live grass.
All of these names reflect certain qualities of the plant. The beauty in bloom and amazing simplicity have made this plant popular, and Matron variety is more common due to long flowering periodbecause it blooms in July, and not in the second half of August, like many other varieties.
Pests and diseases
Sedum may suffer from aphids, thrips, furrowed elephant - its larvae damage roots, and the weevil feeds on leaves.
For the destruction of pests suitable insecticides for black currants.
