Evers sedum is an unpretentious creeping plant for your garden
Among the species diversity of stonecrop, it is worth highlighting the Evers stonecrop - one of the simplest, but at the same time beautiful plants. Its creeping shoots make it possible to use the culture both as a ground cover and an ampelous plant. In a short time, a solid gray-green carpet grows from a small bush. In addition, it also blooms, but it is not picky about growing conditions. What is so remarkable about this stonecrop?
What does a plant look like
The sedum Eversa is a creeping perennial from the jungle family with a very flexible character. Bushes form a long branched rhizome, which over time builds up many lateral, thinner, branches, and lignifies. Ground shoots are smooth, rounded, beautiful red-brown in color and also branching rapidly. Along their entire length, small, but plump, rounded leaves of gray-green color are located, in pairs and opposite each other.
From mid-summer to the first frost, sedum blooms with lush inflorescences. They are formed by many small flowers of pink or crimson color.
With the arrival of cold weather, sedum drops the foliage, and in the spring it grows it again.
Sedum Evers: features of planting and care
Long dangling shoots of sedum plant will feel best in pots... As an ampelous culture, it is not necessary to hang sedum in pots. You can plant it not on a flower bed, but in special containers. It can be both high standing flowerpots, and homemade from improvised means. For example, for this purpose, unnecessary trimming of pipes left after repairs is suitable. All you need is to set them upright, secure them so they don't fall, and fill them with nutritious soil. If desired, the outer side of the pipe is painted or surrounded with pebbles. It turns out here is such a stationary, "garden and flower bed", pots. Interestingly, the absence of a bottom plays only a positive role, since moisture in such a flowerpot will never stagnate.
It is better to fill the soil in the pots with loose and nutritious, diluting the garden soil with humus. You can add some sand if the mixture is too dense. In general, stonecrop of Evers is not whimsical to the soil and poor soil is not a problem for it. But if you use it as a pot-ampelous culture, it is better to provide the bush with food so that it grows lush.
Since sedum Evers is a ground cover plant, it is also planted simply in a flower bed. Growing up, the bushes create a solid green carpet that can hide unsightly places on the site under them.
The culture can grow even in shady and rocky areas. True, with a lack of light, the shoots stretch out, and flowering may not come.
It is not difficult to take care of stonecrop growing in a pots or in a flower bed:
- Water only when the ground dries well, otherwise the roots will rot.
- Remove weeds and loosen soil.
- When grown in poor soils, to see flowering, feed the plantings with fertilizer for succulents. Enough 2 times per season: at the beginning of growth, in spring, and with the onset of flowering.
- Cut off flowers and shoots that have dried up.
Although sedum grows quickly, it also ages quickly. On long shoots, leaves become small, and flowering is sparse and scarce. Therefore, it is important to periodically prune the bushes for rejuvenation.