Nature has created a huge number of amazing plants. Some of them people use to decorate their space. For example, the young flower is used in both gardening and indoor floriculture, although it is still widely distributed in the wild.
Thor Flower
In Scandinavian mythology there is a formidable god Thor - the lord of thunder and storm. He protected people from evil, which in mythology is represented by giants. Thor was invulnerable, in this he was helped by his strength and dexterity, as well as equipment - Thor's hammer, Thor's belt and bronze chariot. God Thor is one of the greatest heroes of the Scandinavian epic, people still keep his memory in works of art, films, decor items. And Thor in Scandinavia is dedicated to a very interesting plant - a stone rose (or young). Photos of flowers show their unusualness.
In the natural environment
A flower called young is common on scarce stony soils almost throughout Europe, Asia, and the East. It easily tolerates lack of moisture, excess or lack of sunlight, frost even down to -30. It is thanks to its vitality that the plant received its characteristic name -"eternally living", which in Latin would be Sempervivum.
The plant was revered by many nationalities as a symbol of perseverance, longevity. Also, its regular, geometrically arranged form of rosettes looks unusual. Thanks to her, the flower was called "stone rose". By the way, the structure of the young rosette absolutely exactly corresponds to the rule of the golden section, and it can be represented in mathematics lessons as a classic example of natural geometry.
Long beauty
A surprisingly geometric plant - the flower was young. Stone rose, as it is also called, belongs to the Crassulaceae family, included in the group of succulents. These plants, and there are very, very many of them in open nature, survive in conditions in which most other green inhabitants of our planet would simply die. No wonder flower growers call plants of the Crassulaceae family "Spartans".
The young flower justifies its unusual names in the best possible way - it is unpretentious, patient and, in addition, very beautifully arranged. The rosette of the flower has the correct shape - the spiral arrangement of the leaves clearly shows that nature knows how to follow the laws of geometry. The rosette blooms only once and, having given the world a delicate star-bud, dies off. But another rosette will grow in its place, which will also bloom after a certain time.
Selection from nature and from flower growers
Stone rose is a beautiful plant. It is for manymillennia of its existence on earth has managed to acquire many species, and most often it is nature that becomes a breeder, allowing plants to acquire new varieties. A man also put his hand in creating a stone rose of an unusual look, trying to get the plant that he would like.
The varieties of juveniles differ most often in leaves - they have a different shape, color, are simply smooth or pubescent, and on some types of stone roses there is an interesting feature - a cobweb enveloping the rosette 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 just 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 bushes of roses and peonies, someone will prefer the classic alpine slide. There are plants that are universal for any garden, they are also young. Photos of flowers in a flower bed allow you to see that with the help of this plant you can create successful compositions, given some features of the location.
Since the root of the juvenile is short, it easily lives in a tiny space - in the gap between the tiles, between the stones. In order for this flower to grow among flowers, it is necessary to determine for it a place that would be free from lushly growing neighbors. The flower was young thoughunpretentious, but he needs open space, otherwise lush bushes will simply drown him out. Of the varieties of this plant, it is quite simple to grow beautiful garden ornaments.
At home
One of the interesting houseplants 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 simply 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 will decorate with themselves any corner of the house.
How to breed?
One of the most unpretentious garden and indoor plants - young. The photos of flowers in the garden below show how beautiful these plants are in combination with each other due to their varied color and leaf shape. But before you create an ornament of stone roses or a composition in a pot, you should acquire a certain number of such plants.
How to breed young? Flower growers use several methods to get new plants from existing ones - cuttings, seeds, babies, roots. It was young, whose photo of flowers is striking in its simplicity and beauty, it is easiest to breed with children. Yes, it can be propagated by seeds or leaves. 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 reproduce in nature as 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. In order for the mother plant to give as many children as possible, it needs a lot of sun. Yes, one has only to put the pot with the plant on a 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 good, loose soil and periodically slightly moisten the soil. The plants take root quite quickly, and as soon as they get stronger and grow, they can be planted in place - on the street, in containers. There are varieties of juveniles that throw out "mustache" with babies, like strawberries. In such flowers, children take root without separating from the mother plant. They are simply lightly pressed to the ground, and only when they take root and grow can they be separated from the mother plant, leaving the "mustache" with the baby.
If you want to experiment, you can try to propagate young by rooting leaves. But this process is quite complicated, in the vast majority of cases the leaf rots without having time to giveroots.
How to care?
Care for some types of plants is absolutely simple. This also applies to the flower was young. Planting and care, the photos 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, growing naturally on rocky soil, it also needs little in an artificial environment: a little space, almost any soil, a little moisture and not too much sun, otherwise it will get burned.
A sunny place will allow the plant to form many babies, which will eventually grow into a carpet along the planting site. By the way, landscape design with the help of youth welcomes such carpet compositions - they protect themselves from weeds, retain moisture in the soil, consuming it as needed. The area where young plants are planted must be carefully weeded, otherwise the grown weeds will ruin the planting of the stone rose, and late weeding will damage the small roots of the plant.
Home care for the young is no different from caring for it 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 by placing the stone rose pot on the south side.
Water in moderation
Remoistening the soil for young is dangerous both at home and in the garden. If the soil for a long timetoo wet, the plant may die.
In winter, if the plant is home, it should be sent on vacation for two or three months - put the pot in a shaded place, where it is cooler, and do not water it. Don't water at all. But then a rested stone rose will delight with its beauty and vitality.
Do young people get sick?
The young flower is 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:
- May beetle larvae that can damage the thin roots of the plant;
- birds that, wanting to feast on succulent leaves, can "uproot" young rosettes;
- rot formed on the lower leaves and roots due to waterlogging of the soil.
Fix these problems easily:
- in the spring, treat the soil from larvae and do not add humus or manure for top dressing, 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 with a decorative pinwheel;
- reduce watering as much as possible if rot appears, while removing either rotten leaves or completely rosettes.
Otherwise, the stone rose is an absolutely comfortable plant that does not require special attention in its care, in cultivation, but it gives pleasure with its geometrically correct beauty and colorsleaflets.
Rejuvenating heals the soul and body?
A beautiful flower garden decoration, even on the windowsill, even in the garden - the flower was young. Planting and caring for this plant is affordable even for those who do not like to mess around with green pets or are just embarking on the path of competent floriculture.
Since ancient times, juveniles have been specially grown as useful plants. For example, small rosettes of the roofing juvenile found their permanent residence on the roofs, as it was believed that the Thor flower would protect the house from lightning during a thunderstorm. The juice of the plant healed festering wounds, and the girls removed their freckles.
Also young is used in folk medicine as a disinfectant, analgesic, antihelminthic, anti-corn agent. The young flower has not been studied from the point of view of official medicine, and therefore all medicinal recipes are folk art. This plant is also often found in magical recipes, but this is already a completely mysterious sphere, inaccessible to ordinary people.
Stone rose, or rejuvenated, or Thor's flower - an amazing plant of the world of succulents, undemanding to growing conditions, easily enduring the harsh climate of rocky ledges, but amazingly beautiful with a geometrically adjusted rosette structure. A huge number of varieties of this flower has made it a popular green pet for home and garden flower beds, allowing flower growers to create interesting compositions onbased on these plants.
