Cleansing

Another name is the cleanser - sedum. The greatest interest for the garden is the clear and the great clearing, since they are very spectacular, firstly because of their large growth( 60-80 cm), secondly, because of the beautiful, bluish-blue, fleshy leaves,thirdly, because they blossom in late autumn to the very frost, when in the garden there is almost nothing to blossom.

Red and pink flowers are collected in dense, umbrella, fairly large inflorescences. There are varieties blooming in late summer, in August. There are many kinds of clearings. Everyone has a different color and small flowers, covering the soil with a solid carpet. Blossom usually in June-July. There are varieties with yellow, red, white or pink flowers. At the time of flowering, they look extraordinarily beautiful, but after flowering until new greens grow by August, all these "pillows and carpets" have a very sad appearance, and removing faded and dried flowers is not easier than weeding. But when, after a while, the stunted sedum again grow up, forming lush green carpets of different shades, the picture becomes different and pleases the eye until the very late autumn.

Cleans easily reproduce by dividing the bush, radical cuttings, rooted shoots and stems at any time during vegetation. Low-growth varieties are renewed by self-sowing. It is believed that without a transfer in one place grow 5 years, but many grow and grow for many years, without any transplant there.

Plants are unpretentious, drought-resistant, do not like waterlogging. Equally well grow both in the sun, and in the shade, on the usual garden soil. They can grow even on sand and stones. Cleansing winter hardiness, but sometimes in the winter thaw, low-growth varieties vyprevayut, but in the same summer restored self-sown from fallen on the soil of the seeds of last summer.

In the cut can be almost creepy and yet still give the roots. You can then plant them in pots, and in spring drop them into the open ground.

Tall clearings perfectly cover the unsightly lower parts of stems from phlox or perennial asters. Beautifully looked and an independent group, especially near water bodies. On rocky slides usually put any "pot-bellied" trifle, with a growth of 5-15 cm, which creates "cushions and carpets" on them.