Nature has created a huge number of amazing plants. People use some of them to decorate their space. For example, young flower is used both in horticulture and indoor floriculture, although it is still widespread in the wild.
Thor Flower
In Scandinavian mythology there is the formidable god Thor - the lord of a thunderstorm and a storm. He protected people from evil, which in mythology is represented by giants. Thor was invulnerable, his strength and dexterity helped him, as well as the equipment - Thor's hammer, Thor's belt and bronze chariot. God Thor is one of the greatest heroes of the Scandinavian epic, people still remember his memory in works of art, films, and decor items. And a very interesting plant is dedicated to the Torah in Scandinavia - a stone rose (or younger). Photos of flowers demonstrate their unusualness.
In the natural environment
A flower called juvenile is distributed on scanty stony soils practically throughout Europe, Asia, and in the East. It easily tolerates a lack of moisture, excess or lack of sunlight, freezing even up to -30 . Due to its vitality, the plant received a characteristic name - "eternally living", which in Latin will be Sempervivum.
The plant was revered among many nationalities as a symbol of persistence, longevity. Also, its regular, geometrically built form of outlets looks unusual. Thanks to her, the flower was called "stone rose." By the way, the structure of the young woman’s outlet absolutely exactly corresponds to the rule of the golden section, and it can be represented at the lessons of mathematics as a classic example of natural geometry.
Long beauty
Surprisingly geometric plant - the flower is young. Stone rose, as it is also called, belongs to the family Crassulaceae, included in the group of succulents. These plants, and there are a lot of them in open nature, survive in such conditions in which most of the other green inhabitants of our planet simply would die. No wonder flower growers call plants of the family Crassulaceae "Spartans".
The young branch justifies its unusual names as well as possible - it is unpretentious, patient and, everything else, is very beautifully arranged. The rosette of the flower has the correct shape - the spiral-shaped arrangement of leaves clearly shows that nature is able to observe the laws of geometry. The rosette blooms only once and, giving the world a delicate bud-star, dies. But in its place will grow another outlet, which will also bloom after a certain time.
Selection from nature and from gardeners
Stone rose is a beautiful plant. Over many millennia of its existence on earth, it has managed to acquire many species, and most often it is nature that becomes a breeder, allowing plants to acquire new varieties. A man put his hand to the creation of a stone rose of an unusual appearance, trying to get the plant that we would like.
The varieties of juvenile differ most often by leaflets - they have a different shape, color, are simply smooth or pubescent, and on some types of stone roses there is an interesting feature - a spider web that wraps the socket like a veil. In principle, unpretentiousness and good survival allowed a person to get a universal green pet, because a stone rose in a room pot looks as natural as it was younger in a flower bed with other flowers .
In the garden
You can decorate the garden in different ways: someone prefers lush flowering bushes of roses and peonies, someone will prefer a classic alpine hill. There are plants that are universal for any garden, and the young are among them. Photos of flowers on the flowerbed allow you to see that with the help of this plant you can create successful compositions, taking into account some features of the arrangement.
Since the root of the young is short, it easily lives on a tiny space - in the gap between the tiles, between the stones. So that this flower can grow among the flowers, you need to determine a place for it, which would be free from the lushly growing neighbors. Ts branches were young, although unpretentious, but he needs open space, otherwise the lush bushes will simply drown him. Of the varieties of this plant, it is enough to simply grow beautiful garden ornaments.
At home
One of the interesting indoor plants is young. A stone flower will be a suitable green pet for those who love and know how to care for plants, and for those who often forget to just water them, not to mention careful care. On the windowsill in one container you can grow whole groups of such green pets, combining them with other succulents. They are undemanding in care, to sunlight or humidity, and therefore decorate any corner of the house.
How to breed?
One of the most unpretentious garden and indoor plants - young. The photos of the flowers in the garden, proposed below, show how beautiful these plants are in combination with each other due to their varied color and shape of the leaves. But before you create an ornament of stone roses or a composition in a pot, you should get a certain amount of such plants.
How to breed fry? Florists use several methods to get new plants from existing ones - cuttings, seeds, babies, roots. Sempervivum, whose photo of flowers is striking in its simplicity and beauty, is easiest to breed with children. Yes, it can be propagated by seed or leaflets. But these techniques are very, very troublesome and most often end before they start - both seeds and leaves die. But reproduction by children gives the best results.
Many will say that many Crassulaceae also reproduce in nature by children - small plants that form next to the mother. Yes, this is absolutely true, but under artificial conditions, this process can be somewhat accelerated and made, if I may say so, more voluminous. For the mother plant to give as many children as possible, it needs a lot of sun. Yes, you just put the pot with the plant on the sunny windowsill, after a while it will begin to form new baby plants in the axils of the leaves. Having gained the necessary strength, they simply crumble. Then they need to be collected and planted.
Since the children have practically no roots, they are simply laid out on a good, loose soil and periodically slightly moisten the soil. The plant is taking root quickly enough, and as soon as they get stronger and grow, they can be planted in places - on the street, in containers. There are varieties of youngsters who throw out a "mustache" with children, like strawberries. In such flowers, babies take root, not separating from the mother plant. They are simply pressed slightly to the ground, and only when they take root and grow, can they be separated from the mother plant, leaving a "mustache" with the baby.
If there is a desire to experiment, you can try to propagate the young by rooting the leaves. But this process is quite complicated, in the vast majority of cases, the leaf decays, not having time to give roots.
How to care?
Caring for some types of plants is absolutely uncomplicated. This also applies to young flower. Planting and care, the photo below will become tips, consist in planting a plant in a suitable place and periodically watering and feeding it a little bit. Since the plant is unpretentious, in natural conditions it grows on stony soil, it also needs a little in an artificial environment: a little space, almost any soil, a little moisture and not too much sun, otherwise it will get burns.
A sunny place will allow the plant to form many children, which over time will grow as a carpet on the method of planting. By the way, landscape design with the help of youngsters welcomes such carpet compositions - they protect themselves from weeds, retain moisture in the soil, consuming it as necessary. The area where young plants are planted must be carefully weeded, otherwise the grown weeds will ruin the planting of a stone rose, and late weeding will damage the small roots of the plant.
Care at home for youngsters is no different from caring for them on the open ground - rare watering and top dressing. True, in an artificial environment, the plant grows less and gives few children. But this process can be accelerated if you put a pot of stone rose on the south side.
Water - in moderation!
Overmoistening of soil for youngsters is dangerous both at home and in the garden. If the soil is too wet for a long time, the plant may die.
In winter, if the plant is homely, it should be sent on vacation for two to three months - put the pot in a shaded place where it is cooler and not water it. Do not water at all. But then the rested stone rose will delight with its beauty and vitality.
Is young sick?
Young flower - a universal green pet for the garden and for the home. These plants are unpretentious in care, they do not need a lot of space. Yes, both pests and diseases try to bypass the stone rose. This flower has only a few enemies:
- beetle larvae that can damage the thin roots of a plant;
- birds, which, wishing to enjoy juicy leaves, can "uproot" rosettes of the young;
- rot formed on the lower leaves and roots due to waterlogging of the soil.
It’s easy to fix these problems:
- in the spring, cultivate the soil from the larvae and do not introduce humus or manure for feeding, because in addition to the fact that there may be pests in such a substrate, the plant will simply rot with such enhanced feeding;
- birds can be scared away by a decorative pinwheel;
- reduce watering as much as possible if rot appears, while removing either rotten leaves or completely outlets.
The rest of the stone rose is an absolutely comfortable plant that does not require special attention in care, in cultivation, but gives pleasure with its geometrically correct beauty and colorful leaves.
Younger heals the soul and body?
A beautiful decoration of the flower garden, even on the windowsill, even in the garden - the flower is younger. Planting and caring for this plant are accessible by its simplicity even to those who do not like to mess with green pets or just embark on the path of competent floriculture.
Since ancient times, youngsters have been specially grown as useful plants. For example, small roofing rosette sockets found their permanent place of residence on the roofs, since it was believed that the Thor flower would protect the house from lightning during a thunderstorm. Juice of the plant healed purulent wounds, and the girls removed freckles to them.
Also juvenile is used in folk medicine as a disinfectant, analgesic, anthelmintic, and antispot agent. Young flower has not been studied from the point of view of official medicine, and therefore all medical recipes are folk art. This plant is also often found in magic recipes, but this is already a completely mysterious sphere, inaccessible to ordinary inhabitants.
A stone rose, or young, or a flower of Thor, is an amazing plant in the world of succulents, undemanding to growing conditions, easily tolerating the harsh climate of rocky ledges, but amazingly beautiful in the geometrically verified structure of the rosette. A huge number of varieties of this flower made it a popular green pet for home and garden flower gardens, allowing gardeners to create interesting compositions based on these plants.