Arensa saxifrage: planting and caring for the plant

Use in landscape design

Intending to use the saxifrage to decorate the backyard territory, one should take into account the peculiarities of its type and variety. An important role in this case is played by the height of the plant, the intensity of its growth, the color of the flowers and the duration of flowering.

This decorative ground cover is successfully used to decorate stone compositions, rockeries, alpine hills, borders. It can be grown alone or in groups with other groundcover perennials of suitable color.

An extensive group planting of saxifrage in the foreground of the site is a wonderful decoration of the backyard territory. In this case, flowering tall plants are planted behind the group of ground covers.

The saxifrage organically complement the garden, made in the now popular eco-style. Growing abundantly over the backyard, they create a lush pillow-like carpet that looks spectacular during the flowering period.

These plants can be used to frame and separate the functional areas of the site. So, with their help, it is easy to distinguish between a resting place and a garden, or to emphasize the beauty of a flower garden, separating it from the rest of the zones with a strip of ground cover.

Saxifrage looks original in combination with other flowering plants. Given this feature, they are often planted with petunias and tulips. If you plant these ground covers with subulate phloxes, then they quickly form lush and voluminous curtains that amaze the imagination not only with their variegated colors, but also with amazing aromas.

In the next video, you are waiting for the cultivation and reproduction of saxifrage.

Canna at home

Flower growers widely cultivate canna as a tub or pot plant. For this, those varieties and types are suitable that can fit on a terrace, in a room or on a balcony. Indoor cannes are highly decorative plants, so they can become the center of the flower arrangement of every winter garden. Plus, the dormant period for such a plant grown indoors is only 8 weeks, while the rest of the time it looks very impressive due to its beautiful foliage and beautiful flowers.

Like any other indoor flowers, cannu can be constantly grown at home using an ordinary flower pot. Or, in the autumn, you can dig a bush growing in open ground and plant it in a pot or tub, reaching half a meter in diameter. Do not forget to spill the garden soil with an insecticidal solution before planting a flower, which will reduce the possibility of damage to the plant by various pests.

Basic rules of care

A room canal is much easier to care for than the one that grows in the garden, the fact is that in this case it does not need spraying, weeding, fertilizing and loosening the surface of the substrate. For a flower, you need to choose a sunny place, and well-settled water is used for watering it, and the procedure itself is carried out only when necessary. It is also necessary to periodically remove dust from the surface of the foliage using a damp soft cloth. When the flowering is over, the bush will still look very impressive thanks to its unusual leaves.

After flowering

A faded bush, as a rule, needs to rest, so you need to start to reduce watering and eventually stop it altogether for a while, but this should be done gradually. The foliage should be cut at a height of 10 to 15 centimeters from the base of the bush.Then the flower is transferred to a dry place, where it should be cool enough (at least 10 degrees). In spring, the rhizome must be removed from the pot, after which it is divided into several parts and seated. The resulting cuttings can be grown on the balcony, at home or in the open field.

Canna at home

Rules for caring for saxifrage in the open field after planting

Many garden saxifrage are crops that are unpretentious to the conditions of keeping, with a high winter hardiness of culture. The unpretentiousness to the conditions of detention is explained by the fact that this plant naturally grows in a dry climate and, often, in direct sunlight. The root system of the thigh is designed in such a way that it can hold and saturate the plant with nutrients even in poor conditions: on rocky slopes and in crevices, where there is rarely water and there is sunshine. It is noteworthy that the mild climate and good growing conditions can negatively affect the saxifrage and even destroy it.

Lighting. These plants are light-requiring, some species can grow in partial shade. There are also species and varieties that do not tolerate exposure to direct sunlight, from which burns appear on their delicate leaves, but there are very few of them.

The soil. For planting a saxifrage flower and effective care for it, you need light, drained, neutral soils, with a small content of peat and sand. For meadow saxifrage, acidic soil is suitable, for alpine and mountainous ones - alkaline and neutral. Some species require dry, highly fertile soil. Others can thrive in moderately fertile areas with an alkaline reaction.

Dull-leaved saxifrage needs acidic soil, and long-leaved saxifrage needs soil with a high lime content. Saxifrage paniculata grows well on almost any soil.

Watering. When caring for a saxifrage flower, you need to remember that watering should be moderate, the main thing is to maintain the moisture of the earthen coma and avoid stagnation of moisture in the ground. It is useful to spray with a hose or watering can. After watering, it is recommended to loosen the soil around the plant, this work will help to avoid stagnation of moisture in the soil and ensure the flow of oxygen to the root collar. Light crushed stone mulch will help to retain moisture longer. This will protect the crop from overheating, and its root collar from decay.

Top dressing. When growing saxifrage, at least 2 additional fertilizing per season is required with full mineral fertilizer. More frequent fertilization can damage the plant. Top dressing is applied during watering, mixing the fertilizer dose indicated in the instructions with water.

Pruning. Pruning is important to maintain the attractive appearance of the flower. Therefore, after flowering, all faded inflorescences and dry leaves are cut off.

Transfer. No transplant is required for 5 to 7 years after planting. After this time, the aged bushes begin to fall apart, exposing the central part. It doesn't look neat and aesthetically pleasing. Therefore, when caring for a saxifrage during its cultivation, it must be borne in mind that it definitely needs a rejuvenating transplant, which is performed due to lateral shoots. This process is described in the section "Reproduction".

Wintering. For the winter, the aboveground part is cut off from plants, covered with dry leaves with a layer of up to 10 cm, spruce branches or other materials.

How saxifrage reproduces

The easiest way is to divide the already overgrown bushes into seedling parts by digging out the sod and tearing it apart at the joints of the sockets with your hands. Each seedling can consist of one or more rosettes. If you do not yet have saxifrage and your friends do not have it, then you can look for such planting material in shops for summer residents among seedlings of flower crops.

The easiest way is to multiply by dividing such a turf into parts, each from one to several outlets

Couldn't find any seedlings? There remains one more breeding option - to sow with seeds. They are commercially available.But keep in mind that seedlings will bloom only in the second year after germination.

Collect seeds from your flowers in the second half of summer. After the petals fall, bolls form on the peduncles. Ripening, they open up, the seeds spill out. Therefore, you do not need to wait for complete drying out, tear off the flower stalks with boxes, only yellowed, and ripen at home on a sheet of paper.

Saxifrage seeds ripen in capsules

Top dressing and reproduction

Houseplants are fed all year round. You can use the same fertilizers as for outdoor plants. In spring and summer, fertilizing is applied every 2 weeks. In the fall, once every 45 days. In winter, every two months.

The flower reproduces in several ways. The most common are cuttings and dividing the bush. You can start breeding only after flowering. How grafting goes:

• Press long shoots (antennae) to the ground and fix.
• Sprinkle with soil, water and make sure that the soil is always moist.
• In autumn, mulch the soil and cover with foliage.
• In the spring, you need to check how the whiskers have rooted and cut them off from the mother plant.
• Drop off separately.

For reproduction by dividing the bush, adult, well-grown bushes are suitable. Dig up the plant and cut the rhizome into several pieces (not very small). Place them in new places. They take root quickly. Immediately after transplanting, the soil is watered abundantly with warm water.

Home plant

Landing in open ground:

• seeds can be planted directly into open ground;
• seedlings should appear in 2-3 weeks, if after this time they did not sprout, then they will no longer sprout;
• before sowing, peat, sod soil and river sand are added to the soil;
• the distance between the seedlings before transplanting is left 20 cm.

For planting seedlings, it is better to choose a dark and dry place. The main thing is that moisture does not stagnate.

Note! When grown in southern regions where the sun is scorching, you will have to create a darkening. The plant will die in the sun

The saxifrage is an interesting plant native to the north. It is able to survive even severe frosts, which is why it has become so common in the middle lane, where frosts can sharply hit.

How to grow seedlings from saxifrage seeds

From the seeds of saxifrage, seedlings are grown in greenhouses. The grown seedlings are planted in open ground in early July. Seedlings planted in open ground will begin to bloom only after a year. Consider the step-by-step instructions for the pre-sowing preparation of seeds and soil.

The optimal time for sowing saxifrage seeds is late March - early April.

Saxifrage seeds are very small, so before planting, the seeds should be mixed with clean sand, which will help to distribute the seeds evenly on the surface of the seedling box. Before you start sowing seeds, you need to perform several activities:

1. Seed preparation. Before sowing seeds in planting containers, they should be stratified: the seeds are laid out in a small bowl and sprinkled with a thin layer of sand and sent to the refrigerator for 3 weeks. Saxifrage seeds are stratified to improve germination and accelerate germination
2. Soil preparation for sowing stratified seeds in a seedling container: The germination of saxifrage seeds depends not only on stratification, but also on the water and air permeability of the soil. Seedlings are best planted in a biohumus soil substrate.
3. Sowing seeds in a seedling container or in peat tablets. ". Stratified seeds are evenly distributed together with sand over the surface of wet soil or spread 2-3 pieces in peat tablets, lightly sprayed with warm water. The container with seeds (peat tablets) is covered with foil and placed on the warmest and lightest window sill. As soon as shoots appear, the film is removed from the container. Seedlings will sprout in 10-15 days.
4. Care. Watering is not required prior to emergence.The main care is to remove the accumulated condensation on the surface of the film.
5. Picking. As soon as the seedlings have 2 leaves, they are dived into separate containers - pots, cups for the further development of roots and a larger area of ​​nutrition.
6. Preparing the substrate and planting young shoots in cups. For dived plants, choose a loose soil mixture, which is mixed with sand and peat in equal parts. The cups are filled with prepared soil by three quarters and lightly tamped. Then they form a depression in the soil with a finger and begin to transplant the seedlings. Saxifrage sprouts should be removed with a spoon along with an earthen clod. Before immersing the seedlings in the holes, it is recommended to shake off the clod a little and pinch the longest root for the further development of the lateral roots.

   Growing saxifrage from seeds

7. Care of dived saxifrage seedlings. After picking, the seedlings are watered in moderate quantities with warm water. Cups with seedlings are removed for 48 hours away from sunlight.

Popular varieties and varieties

The saxifrage family has 200 species. Of these, the following varieties are the most popular.

Soddy saxifrage. The flower is a dense turf of rosettes with dissected leaves. Flowering is short, only 3-4 weeks, which is observed in June.

Gardeners prefer the following varieties:

1. Rose-kenigen;
2. Flamingo;
3. Triumph;
4. Purplemantel.

Arends' saxifrage. The flower pleases with a bright green color during the season. Its foliage forms a continuous carpet, the height of which is up to 15 cm. It fascinates with its flowering in late spring. Among the common varieties of Anders:

1. Sleeping Beauty;
2. Red Cap;
3. Peter Pan;
4. Saxifrage;
5. Snow carpet;
6. Floral Carpet;
7. Highlander.

1. Macocha;
2. Balcana minima.

• Wicker saxifrage. It has round, hairy green leaves with light stripes. Forms a rosette, from which many layering departs, which form new rosettes at the ends.
• Saxifrage is round-leaved. Bushes have petiolate leaves in the shape of a circle. In the first days of summer, white flowers are seen on arrows up to 40 cm long, the petals of which are decorated with purple dots.
• Saxifrage mossy. The bush is distinguished by creeping shoots covered with oblong green leaves. The edges of the leaf plate are cut into thin strips, which makes the dense pillow look like a thicket of moss. The plant is decorated with flowers of a yellow-white color up to 6 cm in length.
• Saxifrage shadow. A bush up to 20 cm in height has whole leaves of green in the form of an oval, which are covered with purple stains. In July, paniculate inflorescences begin to bloom, which are decorated with small white flowers. Their core is purple in color. The most common forms of shady saxifrage will be:

1. Variegata;
2. Aurapunctata;
3. Elliotis Variet;
4. Purple robe.

These varieties and varieties of saxifrage can improve the appearance of any area.

Transplanting seedlings into open ground

Saxifrags are cold-resistant plants, but those grown indoors are afraid of frost. Therefore, plant seedlings in early summer, until July. The culture grows well both in sunny places and in partial shade, ideal for landing on alpine slides.

A saxifrage can be planted on such an alpine slide, and not necessarily in the lightest part of it.

It is advisable to prepare the garden 1-2 weeks before disembarkation. As in the seedling period, the soil must be made loose by adding compost or humus to it. On acidic soil, add fluff (300-400 g / m²). If the ground is dry, water it.

Plant seedlings by transshipment with a clod of earth. Be careful not to cover the bottom leaves. Water the planted plants, mulch the spaces between them. Shade the first 2-3 days if possible.

Transplant seedlings by transshipment with a clod of earth

The planting pattern for most saxifrage is 20x20 cm.If you have a special variety, then clarify all the nuances of growing by studying the description and instructions.