Planting sedum and caring for it in the open ground does not take much time and effort from gardeners. Delicate graceful plants are unpretentious, resistant to drought and temperature changes. Their flowering is not lush, but sedums have the ability to emphasize the brightness of roses and the luxury of clematis. Landscape designers form entire compositions from sedums and decorate hedges and alpine slides with them. Single sedums planted in spring quickly grow, forming a variegated flower carpet of various shades interspersed with fresh green leaves.
More than 600 varieties and hybrids of sedums, strikingly different from each other, are described in the botanical literature
Growing methods
Most sedums are perennials, but annual and biennial sedums are also found. Despite belonging to succulents, when growing wild, plants prefer to settle in temperate latitudes, away from the scorching rays of the sun, which burn tender stems and leaves. The undoubted advantage of sedums is their high decorative value even in the absence of flowering. Breeders have created varieties with leaves of different color shades. By combining them when planting, you can get an original flowerbed. A multi-level composition made up of sedums of different heights and taking into account the color scheme of representatives of several varieties and hybrids looks great in the garden. It combines ground cover plants and tall sedums well.
These representatives of the extensive Crassulaceae family number about 600 varieties and hybrids, differing from each other in height, growth rate and color not only of flowers, but also of thick, fleshy leaves. All sedums, without exception, combine well with both tall and short plants. They are planted together with early flowering varieties to maintain the high decorativeness of the area after cutting peonies or daisies. The flowering of sedums continues throughout the summer and early autumn, which is used by owners of adjacent areas for decoration:
- garden paths;
- alpine slides;
- garden borders;
- hillsides.
Advice: Sedums should not be grown to form lawns if they are meant to be walked on. The delicate stems will quickly break, and the bushes will have to wait several weeks for recovery.
Sedums of various colors are grown in wide flat pots or elongated containers. The containers are located near terraces, gazebos, and swimming pools. If desired, the pots are swapped, making different compositions.
Reproduction methods
Propagating sedums does not cause any particular difficulties even for novice gardeners. Before planting, it is worth considering that the joint cultivation of varieties and even some species will cause hybridization and changes in the appearance of plants. They are characterized by cross-pollination, so the original characteristics are not preserved. Gardeners do not have to conduct experiments in selection - new sedums, amazing in their diversity, will still appear in their flower beds every year.
Note: The most famous varieties of sedum are the result of open pollination, and not the crossing of species.
Propagation by seeds
In the southern regions, small seeds are germinated in the spring directly in open ground. Sedum is sowed in middle or northern latitudes in plastic pots or planting containers. To obtain strong seedlings, prepare the soil from equal parts of top peat and fertile soil. During the planting process, the seeds are not buried, but only slightly pressed into the surface of the soil and sprinkled with a thin layer of calcined river sand. The surface of the container is covered with glass or plastic film and the containers are sent to a cool place (temperature about 5°C) for 10-14 days. This is how stratification is carried out, or long-term keeping of seeds in certain conditions to accelerate their germination. When planting in flowerbeds with germination, morning spring frosts will help, and when sowing in small pots, they are placed on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. What is further care?
- Every day the covering from the containers is removed for ventilation and prevention of putrefactive processes, and the accumulated condensate is removed with a napkin;
- Regularly irrigate the soil using a spray bottle;
- Sprouted weeds are constantly removed.
After 2 weeks, the containers are brought into a warm room and cultivation continues at a temperature of about 20°C. Depending on the care and variety, the first shoots of sedum appear in 15-25 days. The formation of 2 leaves on them serves as a signal for diving young plants into separate pots or holes. During relocation, special care is taken, as seedlings are fragile and easily break.
Important: Sedums propagated by sowing seeds bloom only 2-3 years after planting in open ground.
Cuttings
This method is the least labor-intensive, therefore it is most often practiced by gardeners. It is especially easy to propagate by cuttings varieties that are not demanding on the soil and grow well in poor and sandy soils. Such plants form shoots with aerial roots that quickly take root upon contact with the surface of the earth.
This is interesting: Birds and rodents unwittingly take part in reproduction, carrying sedums over quite long distances.
Cuttings of sedums of any variety are cut both in the spring before or after budding, and in the fall after the end of the flowering period. Ten-centimeter pieces of strong shoots are distinguished by the greatest germination. During the cutting process, the lower leaves are removed, and the cuttings are planted as follows:
- spring planting is done directly in flower beds with loose soil, into which any organic matter has been added;
- cuttings cut in autumn are stored in a cool place in a container with water, regularly replacing it with fresh water.
The cuttings are buried into the soil by 1-2 nodes, regularly loosened and watered. To speed up root formation, planting is carried out in frequently ventilated greenhouses. The cuttings begin to grow in 3-4 weeks. During this time, a sufficient number of roots are formed and even the first shoots are formed.
Dividing the bush
This method of propagating sedums also does not take gardeners much time, but it is used only for tall plants. With the onset of stable heat, a large 4-5 year old bush is dug up and cleared of adhering turf and soil. If damaged or rotten roots were found during inspection, they are removed with pruning shears or garden shears, and then powdered with any fungicide. Substances to suppress the activity of pathogenic fungi are also used to treat the surfaces of bushes after dividing them.
A large plant is cut in such a way that large roots and buds remain on each part, from which young shoots emerge. Before planting in flowerbeds, the divisions (planting units) are dried in places protected from direct sunlight. After 5-6 hours, parts of the bushes can be planted in the local area. This method is also used for plant rejuvenation. Gardeners wait for powerful new shoots to form, and gradually cut out the old ones.
Site selection
Sedums are planted in areas that receive sun most of the day. Sedums growing in the shade of tall bushes or trees become excessively elongated and lose their bright color. The lack of sunny color causes poor flowering and frequent root rot. And the leaves that fall from the trees in the fall often lead to the complete death of the plant. In sunny areas, sedums form correctly, and their color scheme is dominated by rich, bright shades. But there are exceptions to the rules:
- prominent and trifoliate sedums tolerate shade well;
- Sedums can quickly die in direct sunlight.
Both annual and perennial plants are unpretentious and produce abundant flower buds even in soil with a low nutrient content. Gardeners and landscape designers take advantage of this feature of sedums and plant them on rocky slopes or sandy areas.
Advice: The Caucasian variety of sedums grows even in calcareous soils, which in no way affects the quality of flowering and the formation of new shoots.
Despite their unpretentiousness, plants are sensitive to regular applications of complex, mineral or organic fertilizers. Planted in fertile garden soil (for example, loam), they quickly begin to grow. In such cases, the sedums are not fed - they increase the voluminous leaf mass, but the flowering leaves much to be desired.
Before planting cuttings or cuttings, carefully dig up the area for the future flower bed, removing the roots and stones remaining in the ground. Depending on the composition of the soil, add:
- high peat;
- river sand;
- leaf humus.
The depth of the holes for cuttings should not exceed 20 cm. This size is quite sufficient for growing sedum roots located close to the surface of the earth. When planting parts of bushes, the depth of the hole corresponds to the length of the rhizome. Sedums, especially groundcovers, grow quickly, so leave 20-25 cm between seedlings. If planting is done in areas where groundwater occurs or moisture often accumulates after rain, then it is necessary to do without drainage, which is used as small pebbles or coarse sand. Gardening work is considered completed after watering the seedlings.
Secrets of proper care
Caring for sedums, as well as planting, do not present any particular difficulties to garden owners. Varietal sedums bred by breeders by cross-pollination of parent plants are considered capricious. This statement is especially true for sedums, the foliage of which is dominated by unusual bright shades: red, pink, yellow, purple. In the absence of quality care, they begin to intensively form ordinary long green shoots, spoiling the appearance of the flowerbed. If the shoots are not regularly removed, the plant will soon become completely green.
Watering
Like all succulents, sedums easily tolerate even prolonged drought. After the first watering, which is carried out while planting cuttings in flower beds, the soil should dry completely. Excessive amounts of moisture negatively affect the condition of the root system. Putrefactive processes develop, quickly spreading to fragile stems and leaves. If it rains regularly and often in the gardener’s region of residence, then watering should be completely abandoned.
Water is applied not under the roots, but near the plant during periods of severe drought. The best time to water is early morning or late evening after sunset. Otherwise, a dense crust will form on the soil, preventing the flow of fresh air. As a rule, for sedums growing in mid-latitudes, 1-2 applications of water during the entire growing season are sufficient.
Flowerbed care
When deciding to plant any variety of sedum on a personal plot, the owner must take into account that the plant needs regular and frequent weeding. Sedums are not able to compete with any weeds due to the fragility of the shoots and lack of shade tolerance. Weeds are pulled out or weeded out 2-3 times a week, especially in the first month of cultivation. Subsequently, such a dense flower carpet is formed in the flowerbed that rarely any other plant manages to break through it. Also, after planting, the soil is regularly loosened to ensure a flow of fresh air to the roots. They lie at shallow depths, so extreme caution is required.
This is interesting: Caustic sedum is able to independently fight weeds. During growth, it releases special organic substances into the environment that negatively affect not only neighboring plants, but also garden pests - insects and rodents.
After the end of the flowering period, the dried inflorescences are carefully torn off. It's necessary:
- to increase the decorativeness of the flower bed;
- for bush rejuvenation;
- to stimulate new bud formation.
Once a week, plants are inspected and dried or rotten shoots, leaves, and flowers are removed. Regardless of the species of sedum, after five years the bushes require rejuvenation. As a rule, it is carried out by dividing the shoots and then rooting the cut cuttings. Sedums form new bushes so quickly that gardeners have to restrain their growth with the help of decorative stones placed around the flower bed.
Feeding
Excessive application of fertilizers, as well as excessive watering, can seriously harm plants. Sedums will respond to fertilizing with abundant flowering, but this will negatively affect endurance. “Overfed” sedums become absolutely defenseless against molds and harmful insects. After flowering, they grow slowly and form buds poorly.
Warning: Excessive fertilization has a bad effect on the frost resistance of sedums. The likelihood of plant death during even mild wintering increases.
For small flowerbeds, a fertilizer designed specifically for succulents would be ideal. They contain nutrients and biologically active substances that allow sedums to:
- optimally increase green mass;
- bloom regularly.
For large plantings of sedum, you can use complex fertilizers that contain mineral and organic compounds. Adding only solutions of peat or manure will have a negative impact on the formation of buds, since the plant will spend all its energy on growing green mass. The best time for the first root feeding is a month before flowering. It will extend the period of bud formation and give the flowers a brighter color. The plants are fed again after 4-5 weeks.
Preparing for winter
With the arrival of cold weather, the long stems of sedums begin to gradually become bare, shedding their leaves. Gardeners sprinkle them with humus and loose soil to preserve them during the long winter. This also promotes the formation of new shoots in early spring and prevents the plantings from completely freezing. If sedums were planted to decorate alpine hills, then the bare stems and shoots are sprinkled with a thin layer of gravel or crushed stone.
Sedums belonging to tall varieties are cut in late autumn, preferably after the first frost, leaving about 3 cm. The procedure does not have any effect on the quality of wintering. You can get rid of dry stems in early spring. But owners of personal plots do not like the look of dead wood in the middle of a snow-covered flower bed.
The following varieties of decorative sedums are considered the most hardy in mid-latitudes:
- false;
- caustic;
- prominent;
- bent;
- white.
And the Lydian and Spanish varieties are given all the conditions for survival when the temperature drops sharply. To do this, flower beds with non-frost-resistant varieties are sprinkled with straw or covered with spruce branches. Fallen leaves are not used - they cake, and even strong, powerful shoots are sometimes unable to break through their thickness.
The winter hardiness of varietal sedums is directly dependent on the frost resistance of the parent plants. For example, white sedum is characterized by a wide growing area, so its hybrids are not afraid of even a strong drop in air and ground temperatures. Gardeners living in middle and northern latitudes prefer high-mountain varieties of sedums. Sedums, whose natural habitat is the southern regions, can suffer or die even with proper preparation for wintering.
Garden pest control
Like all succulents, sedums are very sensitive to fungal diseases. The worse the care of the plant, the higher the risk of invasion of mold microorganisms. If you water excessively, you can say with 100% probability that the fungi will soon destroy the entire flowerbed with sedums. The disease is visualized in the darkening of leaves and stems, their loss of elasticity and firmness. Treatment with drugs with fungicidal activity will not bring the desired result. Blackened plants are uprooted and burned, and the remaining ones are carefully inspected. Only in the absence of visible damage is it advisable to spray the sedum with fungicide solutions.
Recommendation: A fungal infection can affect a flower bed after heavy, frequent rains. In this case, only the above-ground parts of the plants can be damaged. They should be removed and treated with fungicidal preparations.
The invasion of insects into a flower bed with sedums occurs quite rarely, since they are not very attracted to the fleshy stems and leaves. Sometimes the following garden pests crawl or fly from neighboring plants onto sedums:
- caterpillars;
- weevils;
- thrips.
They are especially dangerous for broad-leaved species, such as sedum. It is raided from the end of June to the beginning of August by false caterpillars and real sawflies. Aktelik, a broad-spectrum insecticide, has proven itself well in the fight against these insects. There is an interesting way to save sedums from caterpillars. Gardeners place crushed lettuce or cabbage leaves near the flower beds, and lay pieces of slate or boards on top. All that remains is to destroy the pests gathered for the “treat”.
Weevils and aphids are eliminated using insecticides, spraying the plants and watering the soil underneath them. Excessively concentrated solutions can burn delicate thick leaves. Gardeners use preparations for succulents intended for treating black currants.
The genus includes up to 650 species, mainly distributed in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Hairy or bare with glandular or simple hairs, straight or erect, sometimes forming mossy cushions or tufts, annuals, herbaceous perennials and shrubs.
The foliage is varied in shape, color and size, alternate, whorled or opposite. The inflorescences of sedum are usually apical, sometimes lateral, corymbose; the flowers are rarely single, yellow, white and pink, sometimes red or blue.
Recently it was a large genus (600 species), which outnumbered some families. After distinguishing radiola, sedum and other plants, there are approximately 300 species. There are 100 species of the genus in horticulture. 
Types, varieties of sedum (sedum)
Agrotechnically, sedums belong to two groups:
The first group is sedums, which prefer sandy loam and poor soils. As a rule, these are forms that form carpet thickets.
Sedum (white)
Under natural conditions it is found in Russia, Western Europe, the Caucasus, and North Africa. White sedum got its name from its fragrant white flowers.
A perennial, glabrous plant that forms low mats 5 cm high. The bases of the stems of white sedum spread along the ground. The inflorescence is paniculate. White sedum flowers on short stalks. 
White sedum grows well in partial shade and also in sunny places. Typical coloring appears only on poor soils.
An unpretentious plant. All of the varieties listed below can withstand the harsh winters of the central zone of our country. White sedum is used as a ground cover plant.
There are garden forms, as well as varieties, the most common varieties being:
"Coral Carpet " - bush no more than 5 cm tall, reddish foliage.
"Atom " - hemispherical shape, with flat foliage on top, turning red in the sun in summer.
"Faro Form " - a low variety with tiny leaves, forming mats 1 cm in height. The inflorescences are also very short. In summer it turns red and then turns brown.
"Hillebrandti " is a large green variety that turns orange-red in summer.
Forms of white sedum
Small-flowered white sedum is a ground cover with green foliage and snow-white flowers. Non-flowering mats 2 cm, flowering mats 4 cm.
White wall sedum is a profusely flowering and tall plant, with purple and bronze leaves and pinkish flowers.
Sedum (sedum) hybrid
Under natural conditions it grows on rocks, in steppes, and in clearings. Hybrid sedum is common in Russia, Mongolia and Central Asia.
A perennial plant that forms mats 15 cm in height. The rhizome is horizontal, slightly woody, cord-like. Stems are branching, numerous, green. 
The foliage of the hybrid sedum is alternate, green, spatulate, blunt at the top, and coarsely toothed. Hybrid sedum blooms in July-August. Winter-hardy.
Drought-resistant, relatively slow-growing sedum.
"Immergrünchen " - a green variety with light yellow flowers.
Sedum (sedum) acrid
Its homeland is the European part of Russia, Western Siberia, the Caucasus, and North America.
A perennial plant that forms ground cover sods. Stems are round, branched. The foliage of sedum is dark green, fleshy, and arranged in a regular pattern. The foliage is not shed in the fall, it remains for the winter. Acrid sedum has golden flowers. 
Sedum has a variety of forms, differing in size and shape of the flower. There are forms with yellow leaves.
"Minus " - low form with small foliage.
Sedum caustic is unpretentious and frost-resistant. Used on rocky hills. The plant reproduces by self-seeding.
Sedum Kamchatka
It grows in Japan, Korea, and the Far East on rocky slopes.
The rhizome of Sedum Kamchatka is woody, branched, thick. Stems simple, erect. Foliage is alternate or opposite. In culture there are different forms, white-edged and variegated. Sedum Kamchatka is beautiful during the flowering period, when the dark stems contrast with the yellow flowers. The plant combines with many other plants. Likes to grow in partial shade, in the sun, on moisture-absorbing soil. 
The species is very variable in nature; different forms and varieties are known in culture. The most common type is Kamchatka flowering sedum and its variety "Weichenstephaner Gold", which is distinguished by lush flowering, but its flowers are greenish-yellow and small.
Kamchatka variegated sedum - a slow-growing form, foliage with a cream border. In bright sun, the edge of the leaf turns a little pink, giving a three-color color.
"Golden Carpet " - bright green foliage and yellow flowers.
It is found on rocky slopes, as well as in subalpine meadows. Distributed in Turkey, Iran and the Caucasus.
Perennial with creeping rhizomes. The foliage is fleshy, dark green, ovate-wedge-shaped. The inflorescence of false sedum is dense, corymbose. Petals are purple or pink, lanceolate, sharp. 
False sedum is widespread in culture. Winter-hardy ground cover plant. A very powerful sedum for small hills, it can suppress delicate species. Looks great in carpet beds, flower beds and mixborders. False sedum is good for planting on terraces.
False sedum is the most common sedum in gardens. There are many varieties.
"Album"- with green foliage and white flowers, weak flowering.
"Album Superboom"- green foliage, white flowers.
"Bronze Carpet"- with bronze leaves and pink flowers.
"Salmoneum"- salmon pink flowers.
"Erd Blut"- reddish foliage and purple flowers.
The second group of plants are plants that prefer nutritious loams. These are tall forms that form extensive thickets, blooming profusely. This group includes all sedums (sedums) and sedums.
Homeland - Korea, Japan, China.
Perennial with tuberous roots and straight stems. The foliage of the prominent sedum is large, sessile, oval or spatulate. The flowers are pinkish-lilac. Blooms in September for 35 days.
Sedum prominent grows well in fertile soil with good moisture and in the sun. Winter-hardy. An excellent plant for flower beds. Goes great with large stones and low conifers. 
Many varieties have been cultivated, but the natural form is also common in gardens.
"Iceberg " - 35 cm tall, with snow-white inflorescences, blooms profusely in August.
"Diamond " - a variety with pink flowers, decorated with bright anthers and pink fruits.
"Neon " - 35 cm tall, with catchy pink inflorescences.
"Snowqueen " And " Stardust " - with white flowers.
Sedum telephium is widespread in Russia, on sandy soils, among shrubs and in pine forests.
A perennial plant with an aerial part. The roots are tuberous. Stems are single, 60 cm tall, erect, light green, simple. 
The foliage of Sedum telephium is numerous, pressed to the top, almost sessile, obovate, wedge-shaped at the base. The inflorescence is dense corymbose. Petals are purple-red. Blooms in July. 
Sedum telephium is a fast propagating plant. This beautiful sedum also grows in Russia, in its southern regions.
A variable plant, several subspecies have been described. 
Garden forms and some varieties are popular in culture:
Sedum "Munstead Dark Red " - red stems, green foliage and purple flowers.
Sedum" Matron " - a tall, powerful plant with large, gray-green leaves on purple stems, with pink inflorescences.
Sedum" Pink Jewel " - with green foliage and pink flowers.
Sedum" Rosie Glow " - a variety with bluish-green foliage and pink flowers, etc.
Grows on rocks, riverbed sands, and pebbles. Distributed in Russia, Afghanistan, Mongolia, and Northern India.
Perennial herbaceous plant. The roots are cord-like and thin. The leaves are glaucous, flat, opposite, obovate. The petals of Sedum Evers are red and purple. Stamens are shorter than petals, anthers are purple. Flowering occurs in July. In spring it grows in May. 
Winter-hardy plant. Loves sunny places. In the fall, when the leaves fall, a skein of tough, dark stems remains. Sedum Eversa grows very slowly.
Here we consider species that belong to two genera - sedum (Hylotelephium) And sedum. Some sedums and sedums are visually very similar and are found under the same name - sedums. The most striking feature for distinguishing them is the flowers - sedums always have star-shaped flowers during flowering, while sedums have bell-shaped flowers.
Location of sedum (sedum)
The plant is light-loving, tolerates only slight shading, the coloring of the leaves of some species in the sun is bright and juicy, and some even acquire a blush.
In conditions of insufficient light, plants stop blooming and become very elongated, losing their decorative appearance. Sedums should be placed so that they are not covered by tree leaves in the fall. In the spring they cannot break through the decline layer. Sedum is drought-resistant. It grows in one place for 5 years. 
Soil for sedum (sedum)
All sedums are unpretentious and grow well in any soil with the addition of a small amount of compost soil or humus.
Some types of sedum and sedum grow in mountainous areas and on rocky soils. There are species that grow in nature on screes and on sandy slopes (caustic), on limestone (Caucasian sedum), under pine forests (poplar-leaved sedum, trifoliate). Sedum blooms brighter and better when grown in well-fertilized soil.
Fast-growing groundcovers (false sedum, Spanish) love fertile soil - regular, loam. When planting other species, you need to make do with sand, ash and compost. 
Caring for sedum (sedum)
The hardiest sedums in the middle zone are white, caustic, reflexed, false and prominent. But Spanish, Lydian, Evers, Siebold require shelter in snowless, harsh winters. Some sedums have a wide range, so their varieties will also have different winter hardiness.
In the garden, all sedums are subject to overgrowth. After 4-5 years, they need to be divided or cuttings to maintain beautiful, even carpets. After six years, sedums such as Spanish sedum and prominent sedum may require “rejuvenation.” This operation consists of removing old shoots.
During the flowering period of sedums (Siebold, Evers, thin-leaved), it is recommended to cut off the inflorescences so that the appearance of the carpet does not deteriorate.
When caring for sedums, it is necessary to provide for frequent weeding, because sedums are not competitive with weeds. But the caustic sedum is an exception, since it itself is aggressive.
Almost all sedums (sedums) are drought-resistant, so they need to be watered only in dry summers and in the first period of time after planting.
Large sedums are cut after the first frost, or dried stems are removed in the spring, because some gardeners like the winter look of faded sedum inflorescences. 
Diseases and pests of sedum (sedum)
The plant almost does not suffer from diseases. But large broad-leaved species, for example, sedum, are sometimes damaged by the false caterpillars of real sawflies.
In wet weather, sedums are visible, ordinary, and can be affected by infections, manifested by spots on the stems or leaves. The affected parts must be cut off and burned.
Among the pests, aphids are sometimes found on large sedums.
Reproduction of sedum
Cuttings, seeds and rhizome division.
It is necessary to sow seeds in spring or autumn, in boxes or bowls that are placed in a greenhouse or dug into a garden bed. The shoots are small. When the first leaves form, the seedlings dive into the beds. Sedum is a cross-pollinated flower, and seedlings do not retain their varietal characteristics. Seed propagation is used in breeding. 
Sedum cuttings
The easiest, fastest way to reproduce. Very often, cuttings are used to propagate plants of the first group; their shoots form aerial roots, which, when in contact with the soil, easily take root. Even the smallest shoots that fall to the ground during the division period can take root.
Large sedums, for example ordinary, red-spotted, prominent, also reproduce by dividing rhizomes. They are dug up in the spring and the rhizome is cut so that the division has roots.
Use of sedum
The plant is suitable for creating carpet compositions and borders. Tall species are used with great success in groups and mixborders, some species are used for cutting. Sedum looks great in rocky areas.
In order to correctly arrange sedums, you need to understand that most of them are not bred for their flowers. First of all, the decorative effect is created by the different colored structure of the foliage. Sedum leaves come in different shades of golden, green, silver, dark red, and bluish. 
You can make a flower garden only from sedums. Place low, carpet varieties in the foreground. In the background, sedums of the second group (hybrid, false, Eversa, Kuril). Sedums of the third group are planted in single specimens or small groups. Carpathian and prominent sedum looks very good, they do not fall apart and retain their vertical shape. Such a flower garden will be decorative until late autumn. Lush, bright flowering of sedums will decorate your site.
Sedums are indispensable for miniature rockeries. They are created in small containers. Markets now sell a variety of plastic flower pots suitable for mini rockeries. As a rule, stones are placed in them and sedums of different shapes are planted, and they are supplemented with several young plants.
Sedums also help out in cemeteries, when decorating graves in a sunny place.
Many types of sedum are excellent honey plants. Golden sedum honey is one of the best varieties, has good taste and healing properties.
Sedum is one of those plants that do not have bewitching beauty, but delight in their unusualness and grace. Thanks to its huge variety, succulents are used in landscape design to decorate alpine slides, mixborders and rockeries. Tall varieties of sedum look great in group plantings. What does this one look like and how to properly care for it?
Sedum description
Sedum is a plant belonging to the genus of succulents, the Crassulaceae family. Depending on the variety, the plant can be one-year, two-year or perennial. Today there are about 500 species of sedum.
Succulents are low-growing and groundcover plants; subshrubs and shrubs are also rarely found. The color palette is large: the flowers are white, yellow, pink, bluish and even light green.
Popular varieties
Each variety of sedum has its own twist and is in demand among gardeners. However, there are varieties that have been popular for more than 5 years.
Sedum Kamchatka
A loose bush consisting of erect shoots 30-35 cm high. The length of the dark green elongated leaves is 4-5 cm. The edges at the base of the plate are smooth, and on the opposite - jagged. Yellow flowers up to 2 cm in diameter form dense inflorescences. The size of one umbrella is 11-13 cm. It enters the flowering phase in June and emerges after 2-3 weeks.
Sedum caramel Kamchatka
A perennial plant with vertical stems 20 cm high. The ellipsoid leaves have a blunt edge near the petiole and a toothed edge at the apex. Small flowers are orange-yellow. Corymbose inflorescences form in June and decorate the plants for 25-30 days.
Sedum purple carpet
A perennial herbaceous plant, which was discovered by the German botanist M. Bieberstein in the 19th century. The succulent is a compact bush 15-20 cm high and 40-50 cm in diameter. Densely leafy stems spread along the ground. Bright green oblong leaves are arranged in two rows.
The length of the plate is 5-6 cm, width - 3-4 cm. The flowers are red with pointed petals. Purple sedum blooms for 1.5-2 months, starting in the first half of summer. Succulent Sedum purpurea is grown from seeds according to the same principle as all succulents.
Sedum Eversa
Compact perennial shrub. By the beginning of autumn, the red-brown shoots become woody. The round, small leaves are bluish-gray and thick. Flowers, painted pink, are collected in inflorescences. The flowering period begins in July and lasts about two months. In autumn the plant sheds its leaves.
Sedum is beautiful
Perennial with creeping stems. The leaf blades are thick, turgorous, and bluish. Prefers to grow in soil made from leaf and turf soil, sand (1:1:2). Grow in low pots.
Planting sedum seedlings
Only patient gardeners can grow succulents using seeds. The process requires a number of manipulations, and lasts much longer than propagation using one of the vegetative methods.
Sedum growing from seeds when to plant? Planting of sedum seeds is carried out in March-first half of April according to the following plan:
Prepare the soil mixture. Mix leaf and turf soil, sand and peat in a ratio of 1:1:1:1. No matter what variety the sedum you like belongs to, sowing seeds for seedlings is carried out as follows:
- Place a handful of substrate on the bottom of the plate and level it. Seeds are sown on the surface of the soil and sprayed with water.
- The container is placed in a bag or covered with glass and sent to the refrigerator (vegetable section) for 2 weeks.
- Stratified seeds are sown in containers, and the soil is moistened with a spray bottle. To make it easy for tender seedlings to break through to the surface, the planting material is crushed over the surface of the substrate and sprinkled with a thin layer of sand.
- The container is covered with film or glass.
To prevent fungi from appearing on the soil and planting material, the minigreenhouse is ventilated from time to time. At room temperature, sedum seedlings make their way to the surface 2-4 weeks after sowing. Plants that have formed 1-2 true leaves are transplanted into separate containers.
2 weeks before the expected date of the next picking, the seedlings are hardened off. Young plants will experience less stress and will take root better in their new location if the time they spend outdoors is gradually increased. Hardening starts from 1-2 hours and continues up to 24 hours.
Planting to a permanent place is carried out in the third ten days of May. When propagating sedum by seeds, keep in mind that the plant will not bloom in the first summer.
For a flower like sedum, growing from seeds is one of the effective ways to get an exotic plant for your garden.
How to plant sedum in open ground
Whether the flower will take root or not depends on how the planting is done. But before you begin the decisive manipulation, you need to carefully prepare.
How to choose a seedling
The best place to buy sedum flowers is at a nursery. For planting, you should choose only healthy seedlings without mechanical damage and traces of diseases and pests. The leaves should be alive and turgor, and the soil in the container should be clean.
When choosing a plant, it is worth considering the fact that low-growing varieties are more suitable for creating living carpets, and tall varieties are more suitable for single plantings.
In our nursery in Tatarstan you can purchase high-quality sedum seedlings for every taste. The company delivers orders throughout Russia, so you can buy sedum in Moscow or any other city if you are a wholesale buyer.
Selecting a location
Like most succulents, sedum grows well in sandy and rocky soils. Despite this, the plant can live on any other soil that drains water well. You should not plant a flower in an area with marshy soils or in lowlands where water often accumulates.
As for lighting, it is better to plant sedum in a well-lit place, unless the description of the purchased specimen says otherwise. It is undesirable for shrubs and trees to grow nearby.
Sedum planted in the shade quickly loses its decorative effect. The leaf blades become thinner and the stems become elongated.
Soil preparation
Most varieties of sedum are not demanding on the composition of the soil. At the same time, some ground cover varieties prefer to grow in garden soil rich in microelements, while others thrive in loam or sandstone.
For example, sedum sedum Purple carpet belongs to the first category, sedum prominent - to the second. Therefore, before buying the sedum you like, you need to find out whether it will be possible to fulfill the requirements of the plant.
A universal soil mixture for succulents is prepared from leaf and turf soil, sand, rotted manure mixed in a 1:1 ratio. A handful of wood ash is added to the finished substrate.
Landing dates
Sedum is planted in the second ten days of May, when the risk of return frosts is reduced to zero. In the southern regions, the favorable time comes earlier, and in the northern regions - later than the specified date.
The flower is planted following this pattern:
- At the selected location, dig holes with a diameter of 50 cm and a depth of 20 cm. To prevent plants from interfering with each other’s growth, 20 cm of free space is left between them.
- A layer of drainage material is placed at the bottom of the planting hole: pebbles, gravel or broken bricks. This will improve the outflow of water and prevent fungus from developing.
- The hole is filled 2/3 with soil mixture.
- The seedlings are placed in the center and the straightened roots are sprinkled with soil.
- The plant is watered abundantly.
Sedum planting and care: propagation by vegetative methods
You can also get new plants using cuttings. To do this, a cutting is cut out from the center of a healthy, mature shoot, so that 2-3 cm remains above the upper and below the lower bud.
The cuttings are planted in a loose, moist substrate and sprayed with a spray bottle as necessary.
During transplantation, sedum is propagated by dividing the bush. The dug plant is divided into 3-4 parts. Damaged roots are sprinkled with activated carbon powder and placed in a dark, dry place for 2-3 hours. After this, the bushes are planted in separate holes in a sunny area.
How to care for sedum
Although care is virtually unimportant for plants like sedum, a succulent will look more beautiful if you give it a little attention. To do this, you need to carry out the following garden manipulations.
Watering
The first thing to remember: waterlogging is one of the causes of sedum pain. Therefore, you can water the succulent only with a moderate amount of water after the earthen ball has completely dried out. Adult specimens are even less demanding on the level of humidity: even in dry summers, rare watering is enough for them.
Top dressing
Sedum is absolutely undemanding in terms of soil nutrition. To make the plant lush and even more beautifully flowering, fertilizers are applied twice. Feeding scheme:
- Before flowering. A solution of cow manure or a handful of ammonium nitrate is added under the plants.
- After flowering. To replenish the supply of macro and microelements, sedum is fed with complex mineral fertilizers in accordance with the instructions.
It is impossible to apply nitrogen fertilizers more often, as this will have a bad effect on the plant’s resistance to low temperatures.
The main sign that the plant needs nutrients and sunlight is pale or yellowed leaves. If the condition does not improve after feeding, the flower is transplanted to a sunny place.
Weeding
Perennial sedum does not get along well with weeds in the same area, so they need to be pulled out immediately after they appear. So that the soil does not become crusty and is maximally saturated with oxygen, the soil around the flower is loosened. To decorate the flower, they surround it with bark or pebbles.
Transfer
The root system of the sedum lies in the upper layers of the soil and is not particularly powerful. Therefore, it is not recommended to frequently replant the plant from place to place. As a last resort, 1-2 picks per year are allowed. Rejuvenating sedum planting is carried out every 5 years.
Shelter for the winter
On the eve of cold weather, sedum is pruned. Heat-loving varieties are mulched and covered with lutrasil. As soon as full warmth arrives, the shelter is removed.
Whatever the variety of sedum, planting and caring for it in open ground does not require special skills or a lot of time. Even a busy person or an inexperienced summer resident can grow a succulent on their own plot.
Diseases and pests
Sedum is one of those plants that are practically not susceptible to diseases and pests. The development of bacteria is often caused by improper care.
Overwatering causes rot to damage the succulent. The main signs of the disease are gray or black spots on the entire surface part. The areas affected by bacteria are cut off with a sharp knife and destroyed, and the sedum itself is sprayed with a fungicide. Watering is carried out only after the soil has dried out.
Among insects, aphids, nematodes and weevils are dangerous for sedum.
- To prevent small black pests that damage leaves, plants are sprayed with a weak insecticide solution. Please note that a strong concentrate cannot be used as it will burn the delicate leaves.
- Nematodes live in the root and quickly destroy it. The appearance of unexpected guests can only be detected by the appearance of the above-ground part of the plant. Flowers with fading foliage are dug up along with a lump of earth and taken away from the site.
- Weevils that eat the fleshy leaves are collected in a bag and destroyed.
Sedum is an unpretentious plant belonging to the Crassulaceae family. Refers to succulents. Sedum is also known as sedum, squeaky, young and hare cabbage.
There are about 500 varieties of flowers, among them low-growing herbaceous plants predominate, and less often shrubs. The most common are perennials. The height of the plant can reach 60 cm.
Description
The leaf blades are thick and dense. They have no petioles. In most cases they are oblong with a serrated edge, but there are other shapes: needle-shaped, round, oval. Their surface can be either smooth or pubescent.
The leaf arrangement can be alternate, opposite or whorled. The color palette of leaves is varied: light green, dark green, yellow, bluish, reddish-violet are found.
The upper leaves are more rounded, the lower ones are pointed and wedge-shaped. The stems are fleshy and strong. Inflorescences located on short shoots are usually umbellate, corymbose or racemose, less often growing singly or in axils.
Sedum flowers are small, star-shaped, and smell pleasant. The colors are yellow, pink, orange, white, crimson, purple. Sedum is a honey plant. The rhizome is shortened, there are many lateral roots.
Spreading
Sedum is found in many parts of our planet, but most often grows in the countries of the Northern Hemisphere: Russia, Mongolia, Japan, China, USA, Mexico. Prefers mountainous terrain, tolerates arid climates and temperature changes well, and does not like humidity.
In addition to rocky slopes, sedum settles in pine forests, dry fields, meadows, forest edges, and peat bogs. The plant needs plenty of sunlight.
Plant name
Translated from Latin, the name of the flower means “to pacify” and “to sit.” The first option is due to the fact that the plant has an analgesic effect. The second translation option is due to the fact that the sedum is very low and often grows, spreading over the surface, as if sitting.
The Russian name “sedum” is also associated with its healing effect - people valued it as a cleansing agent.
Useful properties of sedum
The alkaloids contained in sedum have a sedative and analgesic effect, stop bleeding and lower blood pressure.
The plant contains citric, oxalic, ascorbic and malic acids, which promote hematopoiesis and strengthen the immune system. They normalize metabolic processes and remove toxins from the body.
Flavonoids have a positive effect on the cardiovascular system.
Tannins contained in sedum provide anti-inflammatory and healing effects, and also help in the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.
Saponins accelerate healing and have a diuretic effect. The plant tones the body, eliminates inflammation, helps in the treatment of bronchitis, ulcers, scurvy, atherosclerosis, skin rashes, fever, anemia, burns and nervous system disorders. Reduces blood cholesterol levels.
Basically, the aerial part of the sedum is used for medicinal purposes - infusions and decoctions are made from it, but sometimes the rhizome of the flower is also used - it is used in the treatment of skin diseases, healing wounds and abrasions. Juice is extracted from the leaves
Growing at home
Light. In order to enjoy the lush flowering of the plant, you should allocate the sunniest place in the apartment for it. With a lack of lighting, the sedum will not only stop flowering, but it can also change in appearance and become dull. Provide the sedum with fresh air by frequently ventilating the room. During the summer heat, it is better to take the flower outside.
Temperature regime. The favorable temperature in summer is 8-25 degrees; with proper care, the plant will be comfortable in hotter conditions. In winter, it is recommended to maintain the temperature within 8-10 degrees so that the sedum does not stretch out.
Watering. In nature, sedum grows in arid areas and loves rocky terrain. Therefore, water only when necessary, when the top layer of soil dries out.
In winter, you can limit yourself to watering once a month. Caring for a flower at home will not be difficult, since succulents are extremely unpretentious. Excess moisture can even destroy them.
Feeding. In spring and summer, you can fertilize cacti with mineral fertilizers; it is recommended to do it once a month. In winter and autumn it is necessary to refrain from it; this time is the plant’s dormant period.
Substrate. Sandy, loose, drained soil with the addition of charcoal or brick chips is ideal. Special mixtures are sold that are designed specifically for succulents.
Transplantation. A young plant is replanted annually, an adult one every three or four years. When replanting, be careful with the leaves; they require careful handling. The pot should be wide and not very high, because sedum does not take root very deeply.
Sedum in open ground
Sedum is very attractive for landscape design, so the peculiarities of growing the plant in open ground should be noted. Species diversity allows you to create unusual decorative compositions. Sedum looks picturesque even when it is not blooming.
Flowers are planted at a distance of 15-20 cm from each other (for tall varieties, take a distance of 30-40 cm), after digging holes 20 cm deep and about 25 cm in diameter and filling them with a suitable substrate. Sedum is planted in the warm season - from late spring to mid-September. Propagated by seeds, cuttings or dividing the bush or rhizome.
There is no need to cover flowers for the winter. With the arrival of cold weather, it is necessary to cut off the stems of tall varieties, leaving about 10 cm. Fertilize 2 times per season, no more is needed, otherwise the sedum will lose its attractive appearance and resistance to cold.
3-6 years after planting, it becomes necessary to divide to maintain a beautiful mat of plants. Remove weeds regularly.
Varieties of sedum
There are many varieties of sedum, including short, medium and tall. Let's look at photos of the most unusual sedums:
- Sedum Prominent. Plant grows up to 50 cm with pink or purple flowers. The flowering period is in autumn.
- Sedum Iceberg. Its white inflorescences have a diameter of 15 cm.
- Sedum Rubrotinctum. Also known as Red-colored. The length of the shoots is 20-30 cm.
- Sedum Kamchatsky. Distributed in the Far East
- Sedum six-row. Low, has erect shoots from 5 to 15 cm in height.
- Sedum Thickbranched. It has small flat rounded leaves. Forms a hemisphere.
- Sedum Morgana. Sedum with long grayish-greenish hanging vines, at the ends of which there are bright pink or red flowers.
- Sedum Purpureum. Creeping, height about 15 cm.
- Sedum Ruby Glow. The owner of rich, bright flowers and tall stems.
Photo of sedum
Sedums, sedums, mosses, saxifrages and ground covers -
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Sedum hybrid Cherry truffle.
Height: 40 cm.
Throughout the season, the leaves change their magical color. In spring they are purple with a brown tint, and in late summer the cherry tones turn to chocolate. In August, the beauty is enhanced by red flowers in corymbs. Plant only in the sun, then the color of the foliage will be bright and rich.
Price: 250 rub.
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Sedum telephium Matrona.
Height: 40 cm. Hat: 12 cm.
A dense, compact, very elegant bush will adequately decorate any sunny flowerbed. The stems are straight, powerful, dark, purple. Fleshy grayish-green leaves along the edges acquire a red edging. In July, magnificent soft pink flowering begins. The entire bush will be covered with umbrella hats. Sedum leaves are widely used in folk medicine.
Price: 200 rub.
Sedum Kamchatka Variegatum.
Height: 15 cm.
A bright, very interesting ground cover variety. It is most valued for its foliage color: green-bluish, with a bright cream border. In the bright sun, the border turns pink, resulting in an even more interesting three-color pattern. It blooms very profusely, with bright yellow flowers from June. Young flowers often have orange tones.
Price: 200 rub.
Sedum Lemon ball.
Height: 15 cm.
A golden ball with a lemon tint will decorate any sunny corner. Fleshy and soft needles will be covered with yellow flowers in summer. Gradually the ball grows, forming a dense, elegant mat.
Price: 200 rub.
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Sedum bent Chocolate ball.
Height: 15 cm.
Bright, pretty, ground cover variety. Thanks to the needle-shaped bronze-chocolate branches, the hummock is very similar to a chocolate Christmas tree. It blooms with yellow shields from July. The contrast is great. Will decorate any sunny corner in the garden.
Price: 200 rub.
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Malochai Myrsinites Mountaineer.
Height: 25 cm. Flower: 2 cm.
An evergreen curly plant with semi-recumbent fleshy, diamond-shaped shoots of blue color with a bluish bloom. In May-June it becomes more beautiful, thanks to the lemon-yellow inflorescences, delicately rising at the tips of the stems. Grows well in sun and partial shade. Afraid of stagnant water.
Price: 200 rub.
Sedum Rubens Lizard - Lizard.
Height: 10 cm.
The evergreen fleshy tussock forms many creeping shoots, as if dozens of small reptiles have gathered in a friendly, mischievous company. The tops of the leaves in the sun acquire an ash-pink color, which enhances the beauty of this unusual sedum. Does not tolerate stagnant water.
Price: 200 rub.
Sedum reflexum Blue Forest.
Height: 15 cm. Peduncle: 7 cm.
A perennial groundcover that forms a continuous carpet. The leaves are succulent, evenly needle-shaped, bluish-blue. The flowers are golden yellow, collected in almost spherical inflorescences. Blooms in July. Grows in full sun, tolerates some shade.
Price: 150 rub.
Sedum or sedum false variegatum-Tricolor.
Height: 10 cm.
Creeping groundcover perennial. A highly decorative variety with variegated leaves of three shades, which justifies its name. The leaves are green with a creamy white edge, which in the sun becomes an uneven wine-red color along the edge, with pale pink inflorescences.
Price: 150 rub.
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Sedum Siebold Variegated.
Height: 15 cm.
Creeping groundcover perennial. Highly decorative variety with variegated leaves. The bluish-green color of the leaves is complemented by delicate creamy yellow and pink shades. The flowers are small, pink, appear in late summer or autumn. Shoots with leaves freeze completely in winter, but young, fast-growing shoots appear in spring.
Price: 200 rub.
Evers' sedum.
Height: 5cm.
One of the most interesting types of sedum. A perennial hanging herbaceous plant with fleshy leaves of a light gray hue, which turn purple in autumn. It blooms from July until frost with lilac-pink shields. Loves sunny places.
Price: 150 rub.
Sedum hybrid Kamchatka.
Height: 15cm.
Perennial herbaceous plant withlodging shoots forming a dense carpet of soil. Blooms profusely in June with yellow flowers collected in apical corymbose inflorescences. Flowering lasts 30 days: spectacular, rich. Grows well in the sun, tolerates partial shade easily.
Price: 150 rub.
Acri sedum is acrid.
Height: 4cm.
An extremely ornamental plant.Dense bushes of twisted, fleshy, juicy stems. Blooms profusely in June-July, about a monthalmost sessile flowers, forming a bright golden thick carpet. An indispensable plant for creating bright curtains.
Price: 150 rub.
Sedum false sedum Pink bud.
Height: 25cm.
An unpretentious perennial plant for creating carpet beds. Prefers a sunny place. Blooms from June to August with profusely bright pink corymbs.
Price: 100 rub.
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Sedum hybrid Xenox Orange.
Height: 35 cm. Flower: 5 cm.
A spectacular ornamental variety with purple-violet leaves. From August, the corymb flowers are pink at first, then acquire a charming orange color. Throughout the entire season, the compact bush will delight with its beauty.
Price: 350 rub.
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sedum common Autumn Charm
The charm of autumn.
Height: 30cm.
Decorative variegated variety. Its distinctive feature is a wonderful carved leaf with uneven white strokes. The corymbs-flowers are first pinkish, then white.
Price: 250 rub.
Sedum-Sedum prominent Karl.
Height: 50cm. Flower diameter: 15cm.
An erect perennial herbaceous plant. The inflorescences are bright pink, very good for cutting. Grows in sunny areas. Decorative throughout the season, but its finest hour comes at the peak of flowering - from August.
Price: 100 rub.
Sedum prominent neon.
Height: 35cm.
A very unpretentious and common plant. The leaves are light, fleshy, gray-green, elongated, serrated. Charming corymb flowers of bright lilac color. Planted in sunny areas. Flowering begins earlier than other sedums, in July.
Price: 150 rub.
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Saxifraga paniculata.
Height: 10cm.
The perennial plant forms silvery cushions in elegant rosettes, blooming with white inflorescences from May to July. The leaves are narrow, pointed, serrated, blue-green, fleshy along the edge, with lime protruding along the entire edge. The compact hummock will decorate any corner of the garden in the sun or partial shade.
Price: 100 rub.
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Saxifraga inlaid.
Height: 10cm. Peduncle: 20cm.
Perennial groundcover tussock plant. It has silver-gray leaves covered with white scales of lime, which is why the saxifrage has an almost bluish color with small teeth along the edge, its rosettes form a beautiful compact group in the shape of a pillow. The peduncles are covered with numerous small white flowers.
Blooms in June for up to 20 days. Saxifraga grows well in sun or partial shade.
Price: 100 rub.
Saxifraga shadow Umbrosa Variegata.
Height: 8cm.
Perennial evergreen herbaceous plant. The leaves are light green with beautiful pigmentation. Blooms from mid-June to July, about 30 days. Peduncles 25 cm high with numerous small pinkish-white flowers collected in a spreading panicle inflorescence.
Price: 100 rub.
White moss saxifrage.
Height: 10 cm.
This is a hybrid species, belonging to the moss saxifrage. It forms delightful dense evergreen cushions that bloom in May and June. The pedicels are thin, with several white bells located on them. It is better to plant in partial shade than in sunny areas.
Price: 100 rub.
Moss saxifrage Arendsa.
Height: 10cm.
This is a hybrid species, belonging to the moss saxifrage. It forms delightful dense evergreen cushions that bloom in May and June. The pedicels are thin, on them there are several crimson-red bells, which, when fading, become pink and white. It is better to plant in partial shade than in sunny areas.
Price: 100 rub.
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Calcareous young.
Rosette: 8-10 cm.
Smooth, pointed leaves with red-brown tips. Planted in the sun, in the shade the color is lost and fades.
Price: 100 rub.
Rejuvenated stone rose.
Rosette: 20cm.
This is an unusually interesting plant; translated from Latin it means “eternally living,” although people also nicknamed it “rabbit cabbage.” Can grow in almost any soil, in sun or partial shade.
Price: 100 rub.
Cobweb juveniles.
Rosette: 10 cm.
A plant with thick succulent leaves forming spherical basal rosettes. The flowering period is June, it produces a thick peduncle. After flowering, the mother plant dies, leaving many basal children. This is natural selection.
Price: 100 rub.
Roofing Glauka was rejuvenated.
Rosette: 20 cm.
The rosettes of leaves are spherical, slightly flattened, wide open, with crimson strokes at the tips. The leaves are green with a gray-silver coating. Blooms in July-August for 45 days. Landing in the sun.
Price: 100 rub.
Juvenile ball-bearing.
Rosette: 8 cm.
The leaves are green, fleshy, and their ends may be red or reddish in sufficient light. The shape of the rosette is round, like a ball, compressed, dense.
Price: 100 rub.
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The Chameleon was young.
Rosette: 15 cm.
The color of this variety changes depending on the light.
Green, pink, and crimson colors may be present.
Price: 100 rub.
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The Lilac Time grew younger.
Socket: up to 20 cm.
The leaves of the young always look fresh, as if they had just grown from the ground. The lilac-pink hue acquires its richness from green only when planted in the sun. It is better to protect all succulents from excess moisture, then they will always delight you.
Price: 200 rub.
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Roofing Rubin was rejuvenated.
Rosette: 7-10 cm.
The leaves are dark red, the peduncle is up to 30 cm. The flowers are lilac-pink. Flowering in June-July. For sunny places.
Price: 100 rub.
Ground cover plants:
Spring clear.
Height: 10 cm.
In April - May, many bright yellow flowers appear above the glossy heart-shaped leaves. A mini onion - a bulb - wakes up early in the spring, but already in June the above-ground part dies off (like tulips, crocuses) and goes deeper, resting until next spring. Differs from other primroses: more leaves and color on one tussock.
Price: 150 rub. 5 onions.
Common Variegata.
Height: 25 cm.
The unpretentious, aggressive motley beauty is growing rapidly. Looks great in a garden under trees where nothing else grows, as a border. The main thing you need to pay attention to is that from the seeds of Variegate Snyti, when self-sowing, Snyti emerges with simple green leaves. Therefore, be sure to cut off the flower stalks. If you want to limit it to a specific area, then planting should be done in a container: in a bucket or in the lower half of a cut barrel, which is not dug into the ground completely, leaving the sides. Used in medicine and cooking.
Price: 200 rub.
Chistets - Stachys woolly Sheep ears.
Height: 30 cm.
The decoration of the plant is the leaves: thick and elongated with thick silvery hair. To prevent the beautiful ground cover aggressor from spreading, it is necessary to regularly trim excess shoots, and most importantly, remove all inflorescences that are not beautiful.
Price: 150 rub.
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Tenacious creeping Burgundy Glow.
Height: 10 cm. Flower-panicle: 15 cm.
The most beautiful variegated variety, constantly changing the color of light green leaves - pink, reddish, coral, white, cream and yellow spots, or brown-violet, brown-green, sometimes with a white border. Spring flowering for about a month with blue panicles enhances the beauty of the leaves. They look very colorful in light partial shade.
Price: 200 rub.
The chocolate girl is a creeping survivor.
Height: 10 cm.
At the end of May - beginning of June, bright blue flower stalks rise from the rosettes, which cover all the leaves for two weeks. The variety is valuable all season for its chocolate foliage. If there is a need to quickly cover an empty plot of land, you won’t find a better plant. We can say that tenacious is a flower for lazy gardeners, since it is unpretentious, adapts well to various soil conditions, and is undemanding when it comes to watering. Plant in the sun.
Price: 150 rub.
Price: 150 rub.
Fuopsis - pink rug.
Height: 20 cm.
Another great ground cover plant to decorate a rock garden or rock garden in the sun. The fragrant pink flowers are shaped like semicircular umbrellas, consisting of miniature five-pointed stars with long stamens extending outside the flower. It blooms very profusely and colorfully from June.
Price: 200 rub.
Speckled lily - Silver beacon.
Height: 15 cm. Flower: 5 cm.
Queen among groundcovers in a shady garden. Fantastic silver-white leaves with a light green lace border around the edges allow you to create a magnificent carpet of unusual color. It blooms in May-June with dark purple caps and becomes even more beautiful. Widely used in cooking and as a medicinal plant.
Price: 150 rub.
Cymbalaria is a wall linaria.
Height: 10 cm. Flower: 1.5 cm.
A perennial, unpretentious creeping, ampelous, low-growing plant that forms a dense carpet of tiny ivy-shaped leaves, purple at the bottom, and beautiful blue-purple flowers. It blooms constantly from June, the flowers look like snapdragons. Used as a medicinal and in cooking.
Price: 150 rub.
Iberis Gibraltar.
Height: 30 cm.
This is an interesting ground cover plant.Very fragrant and surprisingly elegant. purple flowers collected in corymbs. It begins to bloom in May, up to two months. Iberis grows anywhere with little watering, preferably in the sun. After flowering, cut the plant by 1/4 and after a short break flowering will resume.
Price: 200 rub.
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Iberis Gibraltar Chameleon.
Height: 30 cm. Flower: 5 cm.
A semi-shrub, aesthetic and very impressive plant.
The leaves are evergreen. Chameleon flowers constantly change their color: white-lilac-pink, collected in umbrella-shaped inflorescences. Blooms profusely from April. During flowering, the inflorescences are almost completely covered by the leaves. After flowering, you need to prune by a third of the length so that the plants remain compact and bloom again.
Price: 200 rub.
Gypsophila creeping Pink.
Height: 15 cm. Flower: 1 cm.
Dwarf ground cover, mat. In June-July, the entire bush is covered with pink flowers floating in the air. After flowering, the top part is trimmed, the plant rests for a while and again pleases us with abundant flowering. Afraid of stagnant water.
Price: 200 rub.
Prunella violet.
Height: 20 cm. Flower: 3 cm.
Price: 150 rub.
Blackhead Prunella White.
Height: 20 cm. Flower: 3 cm.
An unpretentious winter-hardy perennial with creeping rhizomes. It blooms in June with large panicles consisting of several bells. Prefers sunny places. If you regularly remove faded flowers, the appearance will be more attractive and flowering will last longer. Considered to be an aggressor, she remains gentle and shy.
Price: 150 rub.
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Blackhead Prunella pink.
Height: 20 cm. Flower: 3 cm.
An unpretentious winter-hardy perennial with creeping rhizomes. It blooms in June with large panicles consisting of several bells. Prefers sunny places. If you regularly remove faded flowers, the appearance will be more attractive and flowering will last longer. Considered to be an aggressor, she remains gentle and shy.
Price: 150 rub.
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Budra ivy - Variegate.
Height: 15 cm. Aggressor: requires restriction.
The groundcover beauty has many advantages for appearing on your site: a spectacular white border with pink markings, in cooking for its original aroma, combining notes of sage and mint, medicinal valuable essential oils, and vitamins A, B and C, a large amount of potassium, organic acids, tannins, grows quickly and is unpretentious. People call it magpie grass. The flowers bloom in May and are lilac with a dark spot. Plant in partial shade, because in sunny places it grows worse and its aroma is weaker. Can be used for planting in hanging pots, and in the ground for the winter. Just remember that budra does not tolerate bright sun!
Price 200 rub.
Dianthus weed Toronto.
Height: 15 cm. Flower: 2 cm.
A very beautiful perennial unpretentious ground cover plant with narrow, elongated bluish leaves. From June the plant is completely covered with white flowers with a spectacular crimson and red ring in the center. Grows in sunny places.
Price 150 rub.
Volzhanka dwarf Noble spirit.
Height: 10 cm. Diameter: 30 cm.
Compact, ground cover, rounded bush; blooms with white and cream panicles from June to July. Unpretentious and grows well only in shaded areas, a magnificent foreground dwarf.
Price: 250 rub.
Veronica filamentous groundcover.
Height: 5cm. Flower diameter: 1cm.
It has thin creeping shoots that take root easily, covered with light green rounded leaves. The blue flowers with dark veins are solitary and rise on long stalks from axillary leaves. Due to its rapid growth, the plant has gained fame as an aggressor. Grows well both in the sun and in the shade and partial shade. Blooms constantly, but with short breaks.
Price: 100 rub.
Alpine shower - mountain thyme.
Height: 10 cm. Flower: 2 cm.
Beautifully tasty, healthy!
From the end of May, this groundcover beauty will delight you with fragrant purple flowers that will cover the entire clearing. Widely used in cooking. Will decorate any sunny corner in the garden.
Price: 150 rub.
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Creeping thyme.
Height: 20cm.
Ground cover subshrub. Thyme blooms from May to the end of August. Admiring the touching beauty of the charming low perennial, it is difficult to believe that it was considered only a spicy garden herb. This is one of the best void-filling crops, an ideal choice for creating a vibrant, low but lush background.
Price: 100 rub.
Phlox lodging Variegata.
Height: 20 cm. Flower diameter: 1.5 cm.
An elegant species perennial ground cover plant. The leaves are dark green with a whitish-pink edge; in the sun the edge becomes bright pink. Blooms with pink umbrella-shaped inflorescences: May - June (25-35 days). A bright and colorful spot will decorate any sunny corner of the garden.
Price: 200 rub.
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Phlox subulate Candy.
A pillow-colored mat of awl-shaped phlox can enliven any shady corner of your garden. Star-shaped flowers with five petals (lilac-pink with a white edge) sit densely on creeping shoots and almost completely hide the leaves. It blooms from mid-May to mid-June, a second time and less abundantly in August-September. It is a real decoration for flower beds and flower beds. I believe that in the shade, partial shade, phlox is more saturated and more beautiful.
Price: 150 rub.
Phlox subulate blue.
The beginning of spring.
Height: 15cm. Flower diameter: 2.5cm.
A pillow-colored mat of awl-shaped phlox can enliven any shady corner of your garden. Star-shaped flowers with five petals (blue) sit densely on creeping shoots and almost completely hide the leaves. It blooms from mid-May to mid-June, and again and less abundantly in August-September. It is a real decoration for flower beds and flower beds. I believe that in the shade, partial shade, phlox is more saturated and more beautiful.
Price: 150 rub.
Phlox subulate Thumbelina.
Height: 15cm. Flower diameter: 2.5cm.
A pillow-colored mat of awl-shaped phlox can enliven any shady corner of your garden. Star-shaped flowers with five petals (bright pink with red strokes in the middle) sit densely on creeping shoots and almost completely hide the leaves. It blooms from mid-May to mid-June, a second time and less abundantly in August-September. It is a real decoration for flower beds and flower beds. I believe that in the shade, partial shade, phlox is more saturated and more beautiful.
Price: 150 rub.
Phlox spreading, Canadian.
Blue Moon
Height with peduncle: 30cm. Flower diameter: 2.5cm.
Low-growing creeping phlox tussock of spring flowering smaya - 25-30 days of a bright blue hue with a dark eye and notched petals, with a delicate aroma. This species grows well in sun and partial shade. After flowering, it is necessary to annually prune everything that has bloomed and dried out. The bush quickly recovers and soon grows new shoots.
Price: 100 rub.
Lesser periwinkle Illumination.
Height: 15 cm. Flower: 2 cm.
The brightest of the golden-variegated varieties, a beautifully flowering evergreen groundcover subshrub with a branched stem about 60-80 cm long, is capable of forming extremely dense, uniform carpets. Preferred planting in partial shade, although it also grows in sunnier places.
Price 200 rub.
Great periwinkle Variegata.
Height: 10 cm. Ground cover.
The big one is the little brother of the small one. Really larger - its leaves are a little longer and much wider, decorated with a pure white border and spots. Occasionally, this variety produces entirely white leaves. Grows best in sun or light partial shade. Periwinkle is considered not only an original and attractive plant, but also a magical flower that has the great power of love, wealth and protection of the family.
Price: 250 rub.
Lesser blue periwinkle.
Creeping ground cover plant. Periwinkles easily take root from any node of the stem and take root everywhere along the path of their spread. They are famous for their simple, charming flowers that appear directly from the leaf axils in early or mid-spring, and then single flowers can be seen throughout the season. The vibrant blue color looks great against the shiny green leaves. Grows in shade, partial shade.
Price: 100 rub.
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Small periwinkle variegated white and green.
Height: 10cm. Flower diameter: 2cm.
Creeping ground cover plant. Periwinkles easily take root from any node of the stem and take root everywhere along the path of their spread. They are famous for their simple, charming flowers that appear directly from the leaf axils in early or mid-spring, and then single flowers can be seen throughout the season. The bright blue color looks great on variegated leaves: shiny, light green, with a white-yellow border. It grows everywhere.
Price: 200 rub.
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Lesser periwinkle White.
Height: 10cm. Flower diameter: 2cm.
Creeping ground cover plant. Periwinkles easily take root from any node of the stem and take root everywhere along the path of their spread. They are famous for their simple, charming flowers that appear directly from the leaf axils in early or mid-spring, and then single flowers can be seen throughout the season. The bright white color looks great against the shiny green leaves. Grows in shade, partial shade.
Price: 100 rub.
Hautunia cordate, or Chameleon.
An unpretentious ground cover plant. Please note that it can grow indefinitely. The leaves are heart-shaped with green, yellow and red uneven stripes, the color changes like a chameleon depending on the lighting. It blooms in August with small white flowers. Height is about 20 cm. It has a certain smell, so there are no mice where it grows. If a chameleon comes out, frost is unlikely.
Price: 100 rub.
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Petiolate hydrangea.
Height: 30 cm. annual growth.
This is a liana that has many aerial sucker roots, with the help of which it attaches to the bark of trees or to other support, climbing to a height of about 25 m. Without support, it will spread along the ground like a ground cover plant. Blooms with white umbrella-shaped caps.
Price: 350 rub.
Duchenea, decorative strawberry.
Height: 10 cm. Flower diameter: 2 cm.
This is a very beautiful ground cover plant that will delight lovers of low flowers from early spring to late autumn with its bright flowers. This unusual climbing plant will be a wonderful decoration for a personal plot on slopes, steps, etc., thanks to its rosettes - tendrils.
Price: 100 rub.
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