Ophthalmologist: cultivation and care. Varieties of the cleaner.
Cultivation of a cleaner and its variety
For a very long time in botany, it was decided not to separate the sedums (shrub species) from the other ground cover plants. Now most of the gardeners call them cleaners, and after them, science has identified these plants as a separate species (subgenus).
Accusers are perennial herbaceous plants, in height reach (some grades) even 70 centimeters. Shrubs of compact form, rarely sprawling. Care requires the most minimal and therefore cleaners can often be found in gardens even among non-professional gardeners.
Their compact or sprawling bushes can be found in almost any garden, as this hardy culture can adapt to any conditions.
The most famous type of cleaners (Hylotelephium), used everywhere, is about. prominent (Hylotelephium spectdbile). He has strict, straight, not stumbling stems of height 30 - 50 cm. The leaves are almost sessile, broadly ovate, up to 12 cm in width, light green. Flowers are small, mauve, collected in a wide (12 - 15 cm in diameter) flat umbrella. Flowering from mid-September to late autumn. In culture, varieties are widely used: Brilliant with pink flowers; «Neon» - height 35 - 40 cm with bright pink flowers; Iceberg - with white flowers; carmine-red varieties.
Less familiar gardener white-pink cleaner (N. erythrostictum). The plant is decorated with light bluish-green leaves and pale pink or almost white flowers. A distinctive feature is the presence of large bracts, especially noticeable in the budding stage.
The purifier has a white-pink dense inflorescence up to 6 cm wide, sometimes with lateral branches. It blooms in August-September. Very popular variety Mediovariegatun with a light middle of the leaf. In the garden form «Frosty Morn» The leaves are gray-green with a white edging.
Under the name "hare cabbage" is known an ordinary cleaner (H. telephium). It can grow on sandy and alkaline soils. Its thick, arcuate-bent at the base of the shoots reach 40 cm in length. The leaves are oval, widening toward the base, with a pronounced bluish bloom. Flowers are greenish, pale yellow or pale pink, collected in the corymbose-paniculate inflorescence with lateral branches. During flowering in July - August, shoots may collapse. Deserved popularity is enjoyed by the variety "Matron"With a dark purple coloration of all parts of the plant. In the variety "Red Cauli"Blue leaves and small bright crimson numerous inflorescences, the height of the bush 25-30 see Purple Emperor" a little higher, up to 40 cm, has dark purple leaves and bright flowers.
In gardening are most often used clear scrubber. He does not lie, is compact, gives a good color spot, late flowers with pink-purple inflorescences, standing out in the golden brown palette of late autumn. It can be used in any flower garden: before flowering it will be a good background for early flowering plants, soften the bright colors of summer flower beds, and with its flowering will decorate the autumn garden almost to the snow.
It is much more difficult to find a suitable place in the garden for lodging cleaners, such as an ordinary cleaner. Planted in a flower bed next to other perennials, they fall asleep, they just close them with their branches. They need enough space and a decent background. The best background for them can serve as large stones in gray tones.
In this planting, the cleaners will look very natural. It is only necessary to know the measure; these plants are large in themselves, so they are planted on 1 3 copies. This is quite enough for a color spot.
See also: Sedum (cleaning) growing and breeding
Cultivation and care of the cleaner
Growing cleaners in your garden is not difficult. Care for flowers is the regular watering and periodic loosening of the land.
To multiply a favorite variety, divide the bush in the spring. Also cleaners reproduce well by propagation. Green cuttings cut in May, but the stem only after the plant fades. At the end of flowering, the cut shoots are laid out in a dry, warm room. After a while, lateral shoots with bundles of air roots grow in the axils of the falling leaves. They will need to be rooted in light sandy soil.
Rooted cuttings are planted in the open ground for the next spring, but it is necessary after frost - the first-year plants are very tender and afraid of even a little frost. New copies will bloom for the first year, only will be of lower height. To the cleaning man began to bush, he is pricked up the crown.
This culture can grow in one place without a transplant for many years.
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'Green Expectations' (photo 1)
This variety is unique due to the refined greenish-yellow flowers collected in large inflorescences. The bush is loose, slightly spreading, medium-sized. Leaves are large, bluish-green in color. Blossoms since August but September.
'Munstead Dark Red' (photo 2)
The bush is sprawling. Young leaves have a green color, but by autumn they become burgundy-violet. Stems strong, burgundy-red. Flowers of bright purple-red color, collected in large inflorescences.
'RedCauli' (photo 3)
The bush is round, compact. On the violet stems there are bluish-green leaves. The variety is effective thanks to small, but numerous pink-red inflorescences. In autumn the leaves acquire a burgundy shade.
'Frosty Morn' (photo 4)
Variegated variety. Decorative value is represented by inflorescences and grayish-green white-leafed leaves. Inflorescences consist of gently pink flowers, which burn out in the bright sun to white. Blossoms in August to October.
'Matrona' (photo 5)
The bush is powerful, with large, fleshy leaves and purple stems. Foliage of blue-green color with a red border on the edge. Inflorescences large, consisting of numerous light pink flowers. Blossoms from August to September.
'HabGray' (photo 6)
The bush is low, spreading. Leaves are small, greenish-gray, with a bluish bloom. From August to September, the plant is adorned with loose inflorescences, consisting of small white or cream, slightly pink, flowers.
'Purple Emperor' (photo 7)
Compact bush with erect, juicy stems of purple color. The leaves are oval, deep dark purple. The flowers are reddish-pink, they blossom at the end of July. The variety blooms until the first frost.
Mediovariegatum (photo 8)
A variegated variety of tender golden color. The leaves are large, golden-yellow, with an elegant edging of a pale green color. Flowers are small, greenish-white, sometimes pinkish. Blooms from August to the first frosts.
Neon (photo 9)
The plant is very similar to the variety 'Brilliant'. The stems are low, erect. The leaves are large, oval, bluish-green, serrated along the edge. Flowers of bright pink color, collected in semi-umbrellas. It blooms in September - October.
'Autumn Fire' (photo 10)
Stems erect, powerful. Leaves are greyish-green in color. Blossoms this variety abundantly from August to winter frosts with spectacular copper-red flowers, collected in large inflorescences-semi-zonthics up to 20 in diameter.
'Chocolate' (photo 11)
The bush is small, not dense. The stems are relatively thin, violet-boron finish. The leaves are oblong, fleshy, burgundy-brown in color. Blooms from July to September pink flowers, collected in small inflorescences.
'Strawberries and Cream' (photo 12)
Stems erect, light green. Inflorescences large. Buds of red-pink color, and the opened flowers are cream-pink, due to which the inflorescence looks two-colored. The leaves are numerous, green.
'Iceberg' (photo 13)
A small bush is large, oval, bluish-green leaves, the coloring of which to the edge becomes slightly lighter. Massive inflorescences (up to 15 cm in diameter) consist of snow-white flowers. From August to September, the variety blooms.
'Brilliant' (photo 14)
Old variety. The stems are tall, erect. The leaves are large, oval in shape, green with a slight gray tint, jagged along the edge. Flowers are crimson-pink, collected in inflorescences-semi-zootech. Flowering in September - October.
'Autumn Joy' (photo 15)
The plant also has a second varietal name 'Herbstfreude', which, in fact, is a translation of the first into German. A large bush with jagged bluish-green leaves is decorated with large inflorescences of purple color.
'Blackjack' (photo 16)
Stems strong, erect. Young leaves are green or light purple. Over time, they acquire a bluish-purple color, becoming saturated in the bright sun. Inflorescences consist of small pink flowers.
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When I first saw the bent stonecrop of the Cristatum variety, I was surprised at its unusual shape - curved shoots that resemble fabric ruffles. For the interesting structure of the stems among the people, the plant was called "cockscomb". I was assured that this is an unpretentious perennial, but I did not immediately make friends with him.
The purchased delenka was planted in a semi-shady place with sandy soil among perennials. But for several years it practically did not develop.
Last season, in the spring, I decided to transplant Cristatum to a sunny flower bed next to other types of stonecrops. And he seemed to come alive! Shoots began to grow and form "scallops".
Success Components
Stonecrops love open sunny areas and do not tolerate constantly wet soil.
Grow them in light, well-drained soil.
I don't feed anything and I don't water it.
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The charming stonecrops that adorn my alpine hill are propagated by cuttings and division.
Cutting
At the end of July (it is possible throughout the season) I cut the stems and leaves for grafting. I pre-dry them on a piece of dense cloth for a clock, and then I plant them in a mixture of leafy earth and sand (1: 1).
I do not fertilize plantings - all care consists in rare watering. Within a year, the rooted cuttings turn into small "islets".
COUNCIL
To make tall sedum varieties look well-groomed and not thicken, I periodically cut them. And I use the trimmed parts for grafting.
Division
Older plants that have already grown well, I propagate by dividing the bush. In the spring, I dig up stonecrop, carefully cut the rhizome into pieces with a sharp knife - each piece should have several points of growth. I process the delenki with "Fundazol" (according to the instructions), dry them and plant them in the ground.
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I wanted to clarify the presence of a single plant on the site of a nearby nursery and was completely confused with the names: I type the name of this perennial "cleansing" in my search, and I get very different plants on the page, apparently ground-covering. And to me the necessary purification is prominent, according to my ideas, not the soil-blood of some, but a plant about half a meter in height.
I had to understand.
It turned out that the right plant I needed was called the OCHNITCH visible, and in the modern world its closest relatives are called stonecrops, or sedums. And if grapevines are really plants with straight stems 50-70 cm high and large inflorescences-umbrellas, then stonecrops (sedums) form thickets pressed to the ground. These are the differences between two different plant species.