Among the garden plants there are those that practically do not require attention from the gardener, however, they can give their beauty for almost a year. These include a young flower, or a stone rose, as it is often called.
Landing rejuvenated
Rejuvenated - this is a very good solution for creating various dacha compositions, decorating garden paths and cutting flowerbeds. Stone rose can grow not only in the open field, but also on the window sill in a pot, as there are more than fifty varieties and varieties of this plant.
Sockets from the solid petals of this plant bloom only once a year. However, the bloom itself lasts only a short time, only up to one week. The color of the flower can be very diverse, which gives a special appeal to the carpet of the young. In diameter, the flowers can reach more than 20 cm, and in shape they resemble a stone rose. But in what conditions has grown accustomed to grow?
Did you know? Another name was young - hare cabbage, which arose due to the similarity of some varieties with a small crop of Brussels sprouts.
Temperature and lighting requirements
Stone rose simply surprises with its unpretentiousness to temperature conditions, since in summer, it can grow without problems under the scorching sun, and in winter it can survive even in severe frosts down to -30˚С. Therefore, when choosing a place for your own in a flower bed, be sure to give it the lightest spot, to which direct sunlight falls all day.
If you plant a stone rose in the shade, the plant will try with all its might to grow up to reach the sunlight. Unfortunately, this feature of growth has a negative effect on the decorative properties of the flower, therefore it is better not to shade it.
Important! You should not plant young near leafy plants, as the flower will constantly cover its leaves, which can lead to its inevitable death.
But if you grow or are going to plant young in a pot, then Exhibit it must be only on the south side of the house, otherwise the plant will not at all please with its beauty. In addition, in a room with a flower, it is regularly necessary to do airing, and starting from the earliest spring until late autumn it is better to put the pot with it on the open balcony.
What soil is needed for a stone rose
In the natural environment, the young live well in the mountainous rocky areas with sandy or clay soil. Therefore, if the same sandy, light soil with a good drainage system in the form of fine rubble or stones is present in your flower bed, you will not even have to fertilize it before planting a stone rose. The main thing is that the earth is not too acidic, otherwise it can lead to poor growth of the flower.
In the same case, if you want to plant a stone rose in the apartment, as a soil for it, you can purchase a complex soil mixture intended for planting cacti. But besides the soil, it also does not hurt to add a little charcoal, which will protect the root system from excess moisture and rotting of the roots. At the bottom of the pot you can pour a little clay, which will perform the drainage function. If the pot is large, one third can be filled with expanded clay.
How to plant a plant
The flower was young for planting and care in the open field will be ready from the very beginning of spring and until the last days of September. It takes root perfectly in any conditions, but still it is recommended not to delay the fall planting, since the plant still has to take root in the frosts in a new place.
If the plant for planting you is sitting in a pot, you must transfer it to a prepared shallow hole in a flower bed directly with a clod of earth that has stuck to its roots. If the root system of the plant is naked, it is simply pressed into the soil and slightly sprinkled on top of the ground. Since the root system of the molodil is very small, the plant can be planted on artificial pedestals, where there is a very shallow layer of earth.
However, despite the comment about the root system, during planting between plants it is necessary to leave a space of about 10-15 cm. Such a reserve is needed taking into account the fact that during the growing season the plant will increase in size, and next to it will also appear new processes that will completely occupy all the space left.
Important!After the young flower begins to dry, it must be removed from the plant. Otherwise, the socket itself will begin to dry with the flower, which will lead to its death.
How to fertilize a stone rose: care for the soil
Knowing the features of the growth of this plant, it is easy to guess how to care for a stone rose. Correct to say that the soil on which grows young, fertilizer is not required. After all, if the earth is too nutritious, the rosettes of the flower will rush to a rapid growth, which, in turn, will make their color dull and unattractive. In addition, with the intensive growth, the frost resistance of the stone rose is significantly reduced.
therefore if you periodically add fertilizer to the flowerbed, as other flowers grow on it, this will be quite enough for the young. If this plant grows alone in a separate part of the garden, then half the dose of organic matter can be made around the third or fourth year of growth, when the soil is really a little depleted.
Is it necessary to water, replant and trim young
A stone flower is an undemanding plant in such care as watering, although it does not occasionally interfere with moistening the soil in which it grows. Water should not be poured onto the plant itself, but into the space around it, so that the roots themselves pull moisture out of the soil. It should be understood that if the area with young is too wet, it can lead to rotting of the roots of the plant. So it is better to let the young one miss the moisture than it will be too much, since in the first case it will not affect its growth in any way.
In the case of indoor room cultivation rejuvenated, he will not need watering more than once or twice a month. During the growing season, which begins in the spring and lasts until the autumn, the number of waterings should be increased, but you should not pour the flower. Make sure that moisture does not get into the inside of the outlets, otherwise in the absence of intense sun it will also lead to rotting.
Transplant is practically not needed rejuvenate, as in natural conditions he will have enough land for growth, especially if you fertilize it every 4 years. And in a pot, a stone rose also grows slowly, so it makes no sense to replant it in a larger pot.
With pruning is even easier, since it is generally not required by the plant. In the fall, you can only remove the old dried leaves that fall down to the ground.
What you need to know about the breeding of stone roses
Garden flowers on the stones can be propagated annually, which will allow you to get huge flower carpets in your flowerbeds. Fortunately, this task is quite simple, and you can approach it at once in two ways.
Vegetative method
This method of breeding molodil is carried out even without the intervention of the gardener. Every spring-summer in the axils between the leaves of the flower, the daughter rosettes begin to develop. Over time, they increasingly grow and begin to take root, thereby occupying the area around the main flower. If you want to get a more intensive spreading rate in your flowerbeds, These daughter outlets in the fall can be removed and replaced to a new location.
Seed propagation
The question of how to grow young from seeds is more complicated than reproduction of this plant by vegetative means, as it takes much more time to get a beautiful flower carpet. First of all, you need to collect seeds in time for which it will be necessary, after flowering, to leave flowers on the young and, closer to autumn, to harvest the "harvest". Secondly, getting seeds from a plant will surely lead to its death, although it is sometimes rational to sacrifice one old flower for a large number of young people.
Seeds can also be sown for winter, so that they are well frozen before germination. Young shoots will be small and, at first glance, very weak. However, even without any additional fertilizer by the fall, they will have time to grow well, and perhaps even give the first flowering. For the second year, the first vegetative shoots will begin to appear on such sockets.
Did you know? From ancient times, it was used as an effective antidote - it was often added to wine that could be poisoned. In addition, stone rose sockets are often used as an anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory agent.
Diseases and pests of the stone flower
A stone rose flower is distinguished by a very easy planting and care, and as for its pests, this question will also be of almost no concern to the gardener. Conventional diseases and pests of garden plants practically do not affect young. In rare cases Only a cockchafer can damage a plant. It is dangerous because it eats not the upper part, but the young roots, which is why its activity is so difficult to notice. In this regard, plant young in the lighted areas, distant from the trees - the habitat of the May beetles.
Another “pest” of a stone rose is weeds, which grow between its rosettes. If they breed too much, then the moisture and nutrients will stop getting to the roots of the flower, which will lead to its drying. In addition, weeds usually exceed in their growth young and begin to shade it. As a result, the plant just slowly dies without regular weeding.
Well, the last misfortune that can happen to a young woman is rotting of its roots or even sockets caused by excessive moisture in the soil and air. To cope with this will only transplant stone roses to more elevated flowerbeds, which do not accumulate moisture.
Wintering a stone rose: how to save a plant?
As the winters are young, it is not difficult to guess from the description of its natural place of growth. High mountain stony areas do not please the plant with heat at all, but at the same time it still manages to survive. Therefore, if you started breeding rejuvenated at your own dacha, then you will not have to worry about his wintering either.
With the approach of winter, the grower only needs to remove all his dried flowers from the plant, and also weed the soil around, removing all weeds from it. After that, the plant can be covered only with fresh spruce branches, although in general even during a snowy winter, nothing will happen to him.
Important! Pine paws are needed for the shelter of the young rather not to protect it from frost, but to protect the plant from excessive moisture.
Rejuvenated - this is a great plant for open areas of the garden, especially if the soil on them is unsuitable for growing other ornamental flowers. The stone rose is also very convenient for those summer residents who rarely care for their flower beds, because even without regular watering the flower will still please with active growth and natural reproduction.
