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Mossy Saxifrage (mix of colours)
Mossy Saxifrage (mix of colours) - Saxifraga x arendsii.
Thick carpet for rocky slides!
An ornamental, evergreen plant that forms dense thickets of small rosettes of leaves strewn with many flowers on thin pedicels. Height up to 15 cm.
Blooms in May-June. Indispensable when creating a foundation on rocky hills.
Agrotechnics.
The plant is cold-resistant and prefers fertile, sufficiently moist soils and semi-shaded areas.
Propagated by sowing seeds in March in boxes. Seeds do not close up but are only lightly sprinkled with sand. At a temperature of +20 ºС shoots appear on the 14-20th day. Seedlings dive into the phase of the first true leaf. Planted in open ground in July, maintaining a distance between plants of 20-30 cm. In April, seeds can be sown directly in place. For the winter, plants are covered with a layer of leaves 10 cm.
Thick carpet for rocky slides!
An ornamental, evergreen plant that forms dense thickets of small rosettes of leaves strewn with many flowers on thin pedicels. Height up to 15 cm.
Blooms in May-June. Indispensable when creating a foundation on rocky hills.
Agrotechnics.
The plant is cold-resistant and prefers fertile, sufficiently moist soils and semi-shaded areas.
Propagated by sowing seeds in March in boxes. Seeds do not close up but are only lightly sprinkled with sand. At a temperature of +20 ºС shoots appear on the 14-20th day. Seedlings dive into the phase of the first true leaf. Planted in open ground in July, maintaining a distance between plants of 20-30 cm. In April, seeds can be sown directly in place. For the winter, plants are covered with a layer of leaves 10 cm.
Mossy Saxifrage. Bot. syn.: Saxifraga x arendsii, Saxifraga exarata, Saxifraga granulata, Saxifraga hypnoides, Saxifraga rosacea.
* The love of gardeners for saxifrages is understandable: it is worth planting a small bush of this plant, and in a season a beautiful "carpet" or "cushion" will appear on the bed - in the worst case.
The problem will begin later - to restrain its assertive onslaught, since saxifrages are children of rocks, managing to survive where there is practically no life at all ... (and, of course, a saxifrage will climb our alpine slides "in one fell swoop"). Choose a place for saxifrages correctly and wisely!
Remember that stones are better for these plants than a fertilized bed. Saxifrages love limestone, so try to make sure that this stone is present in your rock garden, because it helps the plants not to overheat in the sun and accumulate moisture during drought.
For some reason, many people think that saxifrages love heat. This is not entirely true, they really prefer light, but they need to be protected from the summer heat. The same stones will come to the rescue.
It is best to plant saxifrage on the eastern or western side of the hill, but not on the top (dwarf conifers can also be good protectors from the sun).
* A grandmother I know grows saxifrage in the old-fashioned way: in the form of a pyramid. She takes three flat pots of different sizes (each slightly larger than the next). She fills them with soil and places them on top of each other in a pyramid. She plants the saxifrage in the very top - a small pot: it grows and releases its charming tendrils with "children" at the ends, which hang down and take root in the second pot, and so on - up to the third tier (by the way, there can be more pots).
Then these thin tendrils turn into a whole beard, and the "grandmother's pyramid" itself resembles a green waterfall. For some reason, today we have forgotten about saxifrage, although it can be a wonderful hanging plant.
