Cleansing - Fine Succulent

A beautiful bright succulent from the family of thick-flecked with dense leaves of cylindrical or elongated form in the form of a boat. Its Latin name Sedum, it is able to survive even in unfavorable arid soils, unpretentious and beautify your rockeries and flowerbeds with chic colors. The diameter of some of them can reach 15 cm. The growth of the plant to 80 cm, you can create amazingly beautiful compositions of plants with leaves and flowers of different colors - a beautiful glade will be the central accent of your garden to the most severe frosts. Small frosts to the plant are not terrible.

The leaves are cleanly seated throughout the stalk, shades varied from light green to maroon. Already such combinations of color of leaves are enough to create magnificent paintings on the territory. By autumn, the leaves become brighter, at this time and flowering begins - the gardens have lost their beauty, and the sedum is just beginning to dissolve its flowers.

Cleansing prominent, sedum remarkable. The most popular varieties

The best of all ornamental plants in our gardens, the cleansing will not stand out in a single planting, until the autumn it looks rather boring - the inflorescences are still green and plain. They thickly cover the top of the stem, thickly feathered with thick leaves. The name of the plant, most likely, came from the word sedere (sit) - so tightly placed leaves to each other. There is another version that the name came from the word sedo - "subside". Sedum is a medicinal plant, and has the properties to remove pain syndromes. Plant the plant on the border of the flower bed - it will create a fine curb and limit the penetration of weeds into the flower bed.

Grade Brilliant - the most common, begins to blossom in September and will please you with pink flowers by the end of October. The plant is up to 80 cm high, with it the Star dust brand is perfectly matched, the growth is only 35 cm, the flowers are light, white and cream, starts to bloom in August. This grade is worth planting in front of a high diamond, the flowerbed will acquire a gradual transition of both color and beauty. An excellent addition to the composition can be the variety Karl - it has an amazing frost resistance and stands green before the thaw.

To the bright in its amazing uniqueness can be attributed variety Iceberg with bright white flowers, a variety of Carmen, which is crowned by bright red inflorescences. Very interesting coloring of the leaves of the seed of the sedum Frosty Morne - the leaves are painted almost white. The Kind Diamond Edge leaves are dark green with a white border, it looks great in the foreground of the composition due to its growth - only 25 cm, flowers are light pink, collected in inflorescences.

Care of the plant

One of the most disruptive plants on your site. The only thing the sedum concerns with the claim is coverage. Your succulent does not want to blossom at all, if the sun is not enough for him, the peduncles may not appear, but sufficient lighting guarantees a profuse and bright flowering for a long time.

The soil for the plant must be light, a mixture of sand and compost is the most proper choice of soil, it is possible to introduce very little humus and to limit mineral fertilizers - they may not receive cleaning. And the most pleasant side in the care of the plant is the unpretentiousness to watering. The plant will rather carry arid soil than excess moisture. Transplant cleaning is not necessary, it will feel very long in one place. Only young plants ask for a little moisture, but they still do not "pour". With some freezing of the carpet, you can scratch the individual places, and yet it is worth leaving the planting for self-sowing.

Reproduction of the plant is made by planting cuttings in the soil - it is necessary to cut the stems and leave them in a warm place without access to moisture, after 40-45 days, roots will appear from the leaf axils. Ready to plant young plants need to be cleaned from dry leaves and prikopat in boxes for seedlings. The plants need lighting and weak watering, and by spring they will be ready for planting in the open ground.

Garden decoration - unpretentious cleaning

It is very difficult to create a beautiful garden of annual plants - they are rather capricious and require regular care. If you want to give minimum attention to planting and get an excellent result, use in unpolluted succulent plants in flowerbeds and rockeries. It will perfectly take root in the most common soil, it feels fine during a drought, does not require feeding, it multiplies itself easily. It is safe to say that this plant is for "lazy gardeners": plant several varieties of sedum, and let them exist on their own.

It does not matter what style of decoration of the garden you choose - flowerbeds, rockeries, slides, curbs - in any landscape design the cleansing looks great. It is necessary to collect several varieties of plants of different heights and plant them on the site - everything else will do for you nature. In addition to its unique unpretentiousness to soil and watering, it is worth noting and the medicinal properties of purification. The only thing that should be paid attention to lovers of homeopathy - a sort of caustic to apply is not recommended, all the others are very helpful for ischemia, gastrointestinal tract diseases, epilepsy. Excellent results in the treatment of burns, tropical ulcers, fractures of bones.

Recipes for preparing infusions and ointments can be found in folk medicine. Cleanser perfectly relieves pain, lowers blood pressure, removes toxins from the body. It is not used for malignant tumors and gastritis.

As the legend says, with the help of a crushed sheet, the wound of Telephos, the son of Hercules, was cured. As the pharmacists have determined, in the juice the purification is a lot of oxalic, citric and malic acid, which disinfects wounds and destroys microbes. By its qualities, the juice of the purification can be equated to the extract of aloe.

Cleaning in room conditions

It is a pity, but this decorative plant in the home almost does not bloom, it interferes with the lack of light and too high temperature in the winter season. However, you can decorate the room with plants in hanging vases - you can create beautiful compositions with tall plants, like sansevera. It turns out a very beautiful combination of the color of the leaves - the dark green high-lying leaves of the sansevier and the dangling branches of the sedum perfectly complement each other. One can say for sure that these plants will live in a large pot, successfully complementing each other both in color and in mood.

Both types of plants do not tolerate too frequent transplants, do not like mineral fertilizers, prefer light soil with the addition of sand, perfectly feel themselves in loam, and will take ordinary garden land. An excess of nitric acid fertilizers can cause discoloration of the leaves. To feed garden plants, you can still use a little diluted slurry, but it can cause the fall of plants during severe frosts.

Transplant and reproduction

The plant feels very well for five years after planting. The most popular cleanings in the climatic conditions of Russia: caustic, white, bent, prominent and false - Brilliant, Carmen, Bright and Xenox do not require such attention as Lydia, Spanish, Zybold, Evers, these varieties need to be sheltered for a while in snowless winters By the spring you will have to work on weeding and selecting the dead branches. The plant grows very quickly, the bald patches are tightened by themselves. You can cut off the discolored inflorescence to restore the decorative appearance of the flowerbed and beds

Creeping cleansing shoots do not cope well with weeds themselves - you will have to take care of the care for planting. And only acrid wash destroys everything around - weeds in flowerbeds and rockeries next to it will not be. Pay attention to varietal plants - like everything that was created not by nature, but by the hands of man - such kinds and varieties require attentive attitude, it is necessary to pluck out "wild" green shoots, because the variety can completely degenerate.

If fine cleaning is best cut, large varieties multiply well by dividing rhizomes. The divided roots are slightly dried in a cool place before planting or powdered with a fungicide.

Diseases of plants and pests

A very disease-resistant plant, there will be no cares with the sedum from the owner of the garden plot. Sometimes, in the very middle of the summer, large-leaved cleansers may have false caterpillars of the true sawflies from the family Tenthredinidae. Plants need to be treated with an "atelier" or robbed and destroyed. The plant does not like the excess of moisture, in such wet weather fungal diseases can develop in the form of dark spots on the whole plant. Sick areas need to be cleaned and burned.

Only large cleanings suffer from aphids, which are destroyed by insecticides suitable for fruit currant bushes. Just recently, thrips appeared, from which the tops of plants warp. To young plants, a weevil is struck by a furrowed skimmer, which is simply shaken from the plants onto a white paper and destroyed. The larvae of this pest damage the roots of the plant.

The most unpretentious and very decorative plant for orchards is a cleansing that can be accurately described as a beloved of many undemanding and time-consuming care for the owners' garden. It winters well, richly blooms in autumn, practically does not get sick. This beautiful plant can be grown also in room conditions, if there is enough lighting in the room - sedum light-loving and does not require much moisture.