2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
With the arrival of cold weather, the flower garden becomes empty. It's time to cut the buds, dig out the rhizomes, and start for hiding places. But experienced flower growers know a flower that is not afraid of the first frosts, and he continues to paint his backyard with bright colors even in sad autumn. We are talking about such a simple plant as sedum. In addition to the colorful petals, it is also useful in cooking and traditional medicine. Let's take a closer look at this succulent
Bright sedum in the garden
The genus sedum has about three hundred species. This rhizome perennial succulent is very popular in landscape design. It fits perfectly into the canvas of an alpine slide, it is used for mixborders. These unpretentious flowers are suitable for growing in rocky areas.
Sedum are both erect and creeping stems. Quite beautiful both during the flowering period and before it, thanks to the juicy fleshy leaves of a wide variety of shapes and colors. And they decorate the flower beds for a long time, as they are not afraid of frost. Well, those that are more thermophilic are suitable for indoor flowerpots. The flowers are also decorative. Their petals are white, yellow, pink, crimson, red, blue.
Some varieties bloom in summer. Others decorate flower gardens in October-November. Easily multiply by dividing the bush and cuttings. Now the stonecrop is in full bloom. If you don't have one in the garden yet, but the neighbors are ready to share, you can cut a few stems and put them in the water like a bouquet. They quickly form roots, which are transplanted into pots and kept indoors during the winter months. And in the spring they can be transplanted into open ground. He is completely unpretentious. Suitable for poor sandy soils and does well without top dressing. And on hot days, it also does not require attention to itself and flaunts even without watering. These are the advantages of growing succulents on your backyard.
In addition to stonecrop, other varieties are also popular outdoors:
• Sedum acrid is a squat flower. The petals are golden yellow. The flowering period is the first half of summer;
• Sedum white - the stems of this perennial rise to a height of about 8 to 20 cm. Decorated with a cloud of many small white flowers;
• Sedum deflected - has shoots about 15 cm high. Its bright yellow flowers are clearly visible from afar. The flowering period is from August to September;
• Sedum is tenacious - stems are straight and densely leafy, about 30 cm high. Petals are golden yellow, blooms from May to autumn;
• Sedum purple - one of the tallest representatives of these plants. The stem is erect, its length is about 40 cm. The petals are purple. The flowering period is in the second half of summer.
Sedum for health
In early spring, young stonecrop stalks can be added to salads. But sedum is unlikely to be liked by anyone. He has a pungent taste, and when his juice hits the skin, a burning sensation is felt. However, it is a very useful medicinal plant.
Sedum caustic is used in folk healing both fresh and dried. For harvesting for the winter, flowers are dried in a warm place.
Despite the discomfort from contact with the skin, stonecrop pulp is used as a compress to treat purulent wounds, lichens, ulcers. They try to keep the rubbed sedum on the sore spot until the pain stops. But when the burning sensation does not stop for a long time, the pulp is removed and the wound is washed with water.
In dried form, sedum is used to treat ulcers and inflammatory processes on the mucous membrane. In particular, this is a long-standing folk remedy for such a delicate problem as hemorrhoids. For this, 1 tea. a spoonful of chopped dry herb is brewed with 1 cup of boiling water. The composition is allowed to brew for about an hour and filtered. The resulting drink is consumed during the day for 3-4 doses.
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