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Irish Moss (Heath Pearlwort)
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Heath Pearlwort "Irish Moss" - Sagina subulata.
A white and dense carpet is an ideal ground cover that is resistant to trampling!
Perennial rhizomatous plants that form turf. The stems are spread out over the soil surface. The leaves with fused bases are arranged oppositely. Flowers on long peduncles, small, white.
Forms very dense cushion-shaped carpets. The shoots are strongly pressed to the ground and densely covered with light green small, hard, needle-shaped leaflets. Grows slowly. The root system of plants grown from seeds has a taproot. Vegetatively propagated specimens live mainly due to the superficial root system.
For rock gardens, flowering in the first year.
Natural flowering period: June-August.
Winter hardiness zones: Z4-Z9.
Height: 5-7 cm.
Location and soil: grows well and blooms profusely in sunny places with loamy soil. Winter-hardy, but freezes out in snowless winters.
Reproduction: usually vegetatively, in small bunches of turf, which are planted in spring or early autumn, keeping a distance of 5 cm. Seeds are sown in boxes with light soil in May, transplanted into boxes. 1.0 g = 48000 seeds.
Use: on rocky areas and in carpet compositions. Exceptionally good for planting on terraces of rocky gardens of all types and between path slabs. Absolutely irreplaceable when creating mountain landscape compositions. It is the best imitation of moss thickets in “Japanese gardens”.
Partners: looks good in plantings with Sempervivum.
A white and dense carpet is an ideal ground cover that is resistant to trampling!
Perennial rhizomatous plants that form turf. The stems are spread out over the soil surface. The leaves with fused bases are arranged oppositely. Flowers on long peduncles, small, white.
Forms very dense cushion-shaped carpets. The shoots are strongly pressed to the ground and densely covered with light green small, hard, needle-shaped leaflets. Grows slowly. The root system of plants grown from seeds has a taproot. Vegetatively propagated specimens live mainly due to the superficial root system.
For rock gardens, flowering in the first year.
Natural flowering period: June-August.
Winter hardiness zones: Z4-Z9.
Height: 5-7 cm.
Location and soil: grows well and blooms profusely in sunny places with loamy soil. Winter-hardy, but freezes out in snowless winters.
Reproduction: usually vegetatively, in small bunches of turf, which are planted in spring or early autumn, keeping a distance of 5 cm. Seeds are sown in boxes with light soil in May, transplanted into boxes. 1.0 g = 48000 seeds.
Use: on rocky areas and in carpet compositions. Exceptionally good for planting on terraces of rocky gardens of all types and between path slabs. Absolutely irreplaceable when creating mountain landscape compositions. It is the best imitation of moss thickets in “Japanese gardens”.
Partners: looks good in plantings with Sempervivum.
* In nature, it grows in illuminated rocky and sandy places, mainly in Ireland. The leaves of this plant are very small, have the appearance of needles, but soft. Due to this, the plant evaporates little moisture and easily tolerates drought and cold.
Bryozoan forms numerous shoots that take root easily. Due to this, it quickly forms a dense, uniform, carpet-type covering. If you regularly walk on the plants, the covering becomes denser and takes on the appearance of a dense carpet. If it is trampled little, then the bryozoan grows in mounds.
It blooms with small white flowers with 5 petals. The stems are flexible and do not break.
It is used mainly on alpine slides, in rockeries, in stone gardens and on paths between stones. Recently, moss has increasingly become used as a lawn that does not need to be mowed, since such a lawn always looks neat and well-groomed: and during flowering, the lawn turns white, as if snow had fallen! At the same time, a pleasant, honey aroma reigns in the air!
Irish Moss, Heath Pearlwort. Bot.syn.: Spergula subulata Sw.
