Stone roses - what kind of flowers, planting and care at home and in the garden
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Stone roses attract attention with their original appearance. This plant is considered one of the best for growing at home. Even if the indoor plant lover has little space, you just need to select a small area with good lighting. Several small roses can be planted in one large and flat pot, resulting in a beautiful decor element that will become a spectacular interior decoration. In this article, you can find out what stone roses are, how to grow a plant in a room and in a flower bed, how to care for it.
Varieties of stone rose
Stone rose (another name: rejuvenated) is a plant that has an intricate appearance. It is not difficult to grow a flower, as it does not require special care and attention. More than a thousand varieties are known.
Stone rose - an elegant decoration of an interior or landscape
Below are the most popular varieties that are grown in Russia and neighboring countries.
- Roofing. This variety is best known in Europe. The flower has a spherical, slightly flattened shape, the diameter reaches 15 cm.The leaves are dense, with red-brown tips.
- Mountain. The plant consists of small, aesthetic, delicately assembled rosettes. The buds are large with pink tips. A hybrid of the mountain rejuvenated - Brown's rose. The leaves are covered with pale yellow flowers.
- Caucasian. Grows on stone surfaces. The leaves are dark green in color. The Caucasian stone rose blooms with purple or lilac flowers, resembling violets from afar. This species needs to be fertilized regularly. The plant requires a lot of calcium.
- The marble rose differs from other species in its variegated color with green-pink stains, which change color to red by winter. It resembles the surface of marble. The petals of this plant are painted in a calm red color with a white border around the edge.
- Cobweb. The most unusual and beautiful view was rejuvenated. The leaves are shaped like cones, decorated with flowers. The peculiarity of this variety lies in the cobweb that gracefully covers the plant. Looks spectacular both in a vase and on an alpine slide.
- The escaping was young. Has rosettes up to 5 centimeters in diameter. The color of the flowers is pale green or pale yellow.
- Wulfen's stone rose. This variety attracts with abundant greenery and beautiful small rosettes.
- Russian. The plant can be found in the common Russian forest-steppe. The rosette consists of large green leaves that are tightly collected and located closer to the center.
Varieties of stone rose
The rocky rose looks very impressive and original. It can easily grow in a pot or garden. An elegant plant is able to harmoniously fit into the interior of a room or into the landscape near the house or in the country.
Conditions for plant growth and development
In order for the plant to develop normally and please the eye with an attractive appearance, it is necessary to provide it with appropriate conditions. Rejuvenated requires bright lighting regardless of the season.
It is advisable not to put the pots with the plant on the windowsill that faces the north side, to keep the flower in the shade.
In hot weather, that is, in summer and spring, the flower is watered less often, when the earthen lump dries up, on average 1 time per 10 days. You do not need to spray the petals.
In winter and autumn, the air temperature in the room where the young is grown should not fall below +10, and in summer and spring, exceed + 22-27 degrees.
How to plant a stone rose
When purchasing a plant, you should definitely read the description. You should also pay attention to the integrity of the outlet - it should be compact. In stores, roses are grown in peat mixtures, so it is recommended to transplant the plant into loose and light soil for succulents immediately after purchase.
Young sprouts of a stone rose in pots
The rejuvenated has a shallow root system, which means that the pots should be shallow. A flat, wide container is suitable for planting a succulent.
At the bottom, you need to lay out a drainage layer, which includes pebbles, broken brick or expanded clay. Layer thickness - at least 2 centimeters. If you do not want to buy soil mixture for succulents, you can prepare the soil yourself.
For this you will need:
- sod land - 3 parts;
- sand - 1 part;
- small expanded clay - 1 part.
Before planting the young, you need to disinfect the soil. This can be done with boiling water (pour boiling water over the soil and cool).
How to properly care for a stone rose
The most important factor in the development of culture is sunlight. The plant must receive a sufficient amount of sunlight, otherwise it will lose its decorative qualities.
But temperature is not the determining factor. Do not overdry the plant and allow the soil to freeze.
In summer, it is advisable to take the rose out to the balcony, and then put the pot so that direct sunlight falls on the flower.
How to properly water and fertilize a stone rose
Top dressing of a stone rose is carried out in the spring or summer once a month. For this, the same fertilizers are used as for cacti and succulents. In winter, no bait is made.
In summer, the plant requires frequent correct watering, preferably with a lower technique, using a pallet.
To irrigate a stone rose, use well-settled water.
Flowering and dormant periods
The young do not have a dormant period, it always blooms, it is just that development slows down in winter.
In order to bring the flower to life, you need to leave it alone in a cool room. The culture blooms in most cases in the summer.
A beautiful earthy rose produces one or more flowers. If the owner of the succulent does not plan to propagate the crop with seeds, then the flowers must be removed, otherwise the rose will begin to deplete.
Blooming stone rose
Care errors
With improper flower care, various diseases can develop. With a lack of lighting, the plant loses its aesthetics. If there is not enough sunlight, phytolamps should be used and the plant should be supplemented with them.
With a lack of moisture, the leaves will begin to curl, then you need to water the flower. As the plant ages, the lower leaves begin to turn yellow - this is a natural process.
With excess moisture, the leaves become swollen and watery.If a lover of indoor plants noticed these signs, you urgently need to inspect the roots and transplant the young into another pot, adjust the watering.
Disease and pest control
The stone rose is extremely rarely affected by pests. However, in rare cases, it still happens that the plant suffers from a mealybug attack, which destroys the leaves and root system.
Recognizing a hated pest is easy. These are colonies that look like dirty cotton wool on the leaves of a plant. You can remove the pest with alcohol-treated cotton pads. Or just wash off with water. If the case is severely neglected, then the soil and the plant are sprayed with insecticides (in such cases, Aktara and Fitoverm are used).
Stone rose breeding methods
The most popular and easiest way to reproduce juveniles is to separate the small lateral daughter rosettes from the mother plant. It is advisable to use this method in the spring, since this is the main phase of the development of a stone rose. The sockets must be cut off with a knife, after having disinfected the instrument. Each cut off daughter outlet is sprinkled with activated charcoal and planted in the ground.
Stone rose breeding methods
Propagation by leaf cuttings:
- from the mother bush, a side leaf should be cut off, which is located close to the trunk (or you can cut off the top of the stem);
- remove a few leaves from the bottom;
- cuttings take root within a few hours;
- then the lower part of the leaf or cutting is immersed in an impregnated (moistened) mixture of vermiculite and sand;
- install the handle in a place that is brightly lit;
- periodically you need to spray the soil;
- in a month, small roots should appear, from which new sockets will then develop.
This whole process takes time (2 to 3 months). During this period, shrinking and drying of the mother leaf occurs. When the small rosette gets stronger, it will need to be transplanted into a wide pot of cactus soil.
Germinating stone rose seeds
If the young is grown in stores, then problems, as a rule, do not arise. But few know how to germinate seeds at home.
First, you need to plant them in the ground, consisting of peat and sand, and bury them in the ground by 3-4 mm. Then it is necessary to water the earth from a sprayer and place it under the film.
An impromptu greenhouse is placed in a warm, well-lit place with a temperature of no higher than 20-25 degrees. It is important to regularly spray the soil with water, and ventilate the room daily for 30 minutes.
Roses "stone", as they are also called, are very spectacular indoor and garden plants that will delight the owner with their appearance and high decorativeness for a long period. Original sockets come in different colors, shapes, sizes. The plant is unpretentious, does not require special care. Busy and even lazy people love him. If there is a desire to create a comfortable, cozy atmosphere in the house or to decorate the landscape in the garden, a stone rose will help with this.
