Cleaning: Growing and Care

In the landscape landscape gardening is especially beautiful. Cultivation of these flowers is not difficult, especially since there are many of them. They are considered the most common in the whole world. Relate to the extensive genus Tolstoykov. More than 500 species of sedums are used as ground cover perennials . The most popular types are: clear clear, clearing telophium, purifying caucasian, sedum Purple emperor, sedum white-pink, purification Ruby glow.

Some of them are cultivated in ordinary room floriculture. Their height can be up to 80 cm. The stems are covered with fleshy thick leaves of grayish, green, burgundy or reddish color with a light bluish bloom. Some varieties of inflorescence reach 30 cm in diameter! By the end of the summer, the hats of the purifiers are brightly colored: lilac, white, pink, carmine, brown, burgundy. In the autumn, the flowers turn dark, but still remain on plants for a long time, gradually losing their attractiveness.

Since ancient times, the clearings known to mankind. The fact is that the juice from the leaves of these plants was greased with burns and wounds, and still the cleansing is a biostimulant (like aloe). Note that the cleansing is a honey-flower, which attracts to the garden bumblebees, butterflies and, of course, bees. In the people the plant is known under the names "young" and "hare cabbage".

Purification, the cultivation of which is not so difficult, requires a good start. To do this, you need to prepare a pit 50x50 cm, a depth of 20 cm. For planting, the substrate consists of sand and humus or from humus and sandy loam. A place is better to choose sunny. The whole point of caring for plants is loosening and timely weeding. Arid periods these plants carry remarkably, feeding on moisture from their reserves accumulated in thick leaves. In additional fertilizers does not need cleaning. Many sedums blossom well even on poor soils.

After the cleansing finishes to bloom, its stems must be cut to the ground, while the rosette for the winter should be covered with garden compost. Plants of this type are affected by weevil beetles, as well as by slugs and snails.

Prefer the purification of the cultivation is caring, but not annoying. But when they multiply, they need special care. You can propagate sedum seeds, leaf or stem cuttings, dividing the bush. Seeds must be sown in the spring or fall in specially prepared boxes. They must be dug into the ground or put in a greenhouse. Soon there will be small shoots. When there will be two leaves, you need to dive in the beds. Plants will bloom a year or two after planting. Excellent rooting cleansing with stem cuttings, producing it in a warm time and preferably immediately in the open ground. The lower part of the stems can be cut into a couple of pieces, each of which is rooted in the sand. You can also leave the stalk in a dry and warm place, after a while, new shoots and aerial roots, easily rooted in contact with the ground, will appear. Division of a bush is the easiest method of reproduction, besides every cleansing (which cultivation lasts a long time) every few years it is necessary to divide. Do it better in the spring.

Purification, the cultivation of which does not take long, decorate any landscape and garden. So do not doubt their choice!