Arenda’s saber-saw is loved by many growers, as it not only has an aesthetically appealing appearance, but is also unpretentious to the conditions of detention.
They grow this plant around the globe, decorating them with garden plots, flower beds and stony gardens.
Botanical description
Arendz's Cauliflower is a hybrid species of perennial evergreen herbaceous ground cover plants belonging to the Campelloma genus. Plant unpretentious, able to grow on stony soil, between stones, in rock crevices and on mountain slopes.
The plant grows thick and thick, forming natural green carpet thick and bright. Small, glossy and deeply dissected palmate leaves are collected in fluffy rosettes at the roots and form hemispherical "caps". Covering the site, saxifrage becomes similar to moss mounds, as the sockets are thick and close to each other. Plant height, depending on the variety, ranges from 10 to 20 cm. 
The period of flowering carpet falls for a long period, starting in March and ending in August. Flowering lasts 1 month. In central Russia, you can admire the blooming kamnelomkoy from April to June.
In this 30-day period, Arends’s stonefringer throws bright small bell-shaped flowers on slightly longer stems that rise above a green carpet of leaves. Petals 5, and their color depends on the variety and can be white, pink and red.
Important! The intensity of the color of flowers depends on the height above sea level, on which saxifrage grows, and the higher it is, the brighter and richer the color.
The flowers contain 10 stamens, the fruit is a box, and the seeds are very tiny. They are so small that in 1 g there are up to 20 thousand seeds.
At one place the plant can grow within 7-8 years. 
Spread
Kamnelomka family of plants can be found almost worldwide. They grow in Europe and Central America, in the mountainous part of Asia, in the mountainous regions of the tropics in Africa and even in the Arctic latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. But in Russia, the stone-sawing stone of Arends has found wide application, as it is unpretentious to the environment and habitat conditions, does not need nutrient soil, is frost-resistant, and is able to withstand extreme weather conditions and temperature changes.
Learn more about saxifrage: proper fit and care (at home), common types, useful properties.
Arenda's varieties of saxifrage
The most common varieties are:
- "Shneeteppih", or "White Carpet" - blooms snow-white flowers, forms a thick white carpet. The height of the stems reaches 20 cm. It is an excellent ground cover. Flowering period - from May to June. It is cold-resistant, but requires a leaf cover of at least 10 cm for the winter. Features of a grade: loves fertile and moist soils, when planting seeds are not filled up, but only slightly sprinkled with sand, it needs an open area, as it grows heavily.
- "Purpurmantel", or "Purple Carpet" - flowers are painted in a saturated purple-pink color. Plant height - no more than 15 cm. Covers the ground with a continuous purple carpet. Resistant to cold weather, needs a small shelter for the winter. Features of a grade: grows well on moist and well-drained soils, when planting between plants should be left 20-30 cm of free space.
- "Peter Pen" - saxifrage with bright pink flowers. It grows up to 10-15 cm. It forms dense thickets, flowers on thin pedicels closely adjoin each other. Feature of the variety: prefers soil containing humus.
- "Floral Carpet", or "Flower Carpet" - flowers motley and multi-colored. In May and June is densely covered with white, pink and purple flowers. Reaches a height of 20 cm. Feature of the variety: despite the fact that this variety loves penumbra, it may well grow in sunny areas.
Schneeteppich
Purpurmantel
Peter pan
Floral carpetApplication in landscape design
Sausage flower carpets are very popular in landscape design. The simplicity of the plant and its attractive appearance, as well as many opportunities to create from it a picturesque composition make this look indispensable in the arrangement of the garden.
Arenda's saberjack can be used in landscape design as follows:
- in the garden is suitable for group plantings and is located in the foreground;
- can be used for complex flower arrangements - next to tall plants or flowers of the same height, which bloom after the saxifrage has faded;
- beautifully decorated borders;
- suitable for filling voids in the garden on which other plants do not grow;
- often used to create a rock garden;
- in rockeries, dense thickets of this species are most often located in the foreground;
- great for creating alpine slides, can grow in the crevices between the stones;
- can decorate stonework;
- can be used as an ampelous plant.
Familiarize yourself with annual and perennial representatives of curb flowers, and also learn how to make an alpine slide with your own hands and what flowers to use.
Growing at home
The stone-sawing stone of Arends is considered to be a rather unpretentious plant, because the conditions of its natural habitat are far from greenhouses. She does not need rich fertile soils, can live in shade and partial shade, is not afraid of cold weather. However, sometimes in its garden is quite difficult to recreate the harsh mountain conditions. Especially in the painstaking care need young plants that have not yet rooted. Consider the main features of growing flower carpet at home.
Did you know? Despite the fact that saxifrage is recognized as a purely ornamental plant, still in the countries of Southeast Asia, some species are eaten after frying in batter.
Conditions of detention
Arenda's saberjack is capable of growing both on a garden plot in open ground, and on a window sill in a pot. 
Selection of a plot in open ground. When breeding kamnelomki in the garden is best to choose a plot on a small hill, where there will not accumulate excess water. It should be a little shaded place, as the plant feels best away from direct sunlight. These can be areas under trees, bare voids, places around the path, rock gardens or rockeries. It is best to imitate the natural conditions of growth, forming rocky slopes - this will ensure the outflow of excess water from the roots.
Astilba (cultivation, species and varieties), darmer, bergenia (planting and care, species, benefits) are biological "relatives" of saxifrage.
Choosing a pot at room dilution. When growing plants in room conditions, the pot should be chosen small, shallow and flat. At the bottom is placed claydite as a drainage, covered with soil from above.
The soil is best to choose weakly nourishing, humus - a clay-sod mixture is quite suitable.
Lighting. For the successful cultivation of the flower carpet of Arends, it is necessary to protect it from bright sunlight and especially from the heat. Loves penumbra and diffused light. Maybe some time to live in the shadows, as long as this period was not too long. The direct rays of the sun does not tolerate and in such conditions it loses its decorative effect. Only some varieties are able to survive in sunny areas (for example, "Floral Carpet"). For room maintenance, choose windows facing the west or east side.
It is interesting to read about the choice of plants for the solar area.
Temperature mode. Does not like heat. In spring, summer and autumn, the plant's preferred temperature ranges from +20 to +25 ° C. In winter, at room temperature and during the rest period, the temperature is reduced to + 12 ... +15 ° С. If the temperature rises above +25 ° C (for example, in the summer heat or because of the heat coming from the heating batteries in the house), the flower is often sprayed and watered, providing a constant humidity of the air.
Top dressing. It is carried out throughout the year. From spring to autumn, they feed up saxifrage twice a month, and in winter - once a month. Organic fertilizers alternate with mineral. The introduction of nitrogenous fertilizers is not recommended, as this will provoke an excessive growth of the vegetative mass, and flowering will suffer. 
Crop. Not required. However, faded flower stalks should be cut. This will stimulate the plant to further flowering. Faded and withered leaves are also removed.
Transfer. At one place a plant can grow for a very long time - from 6 to 8 years. After this period, the old bushes lose their decorativeness, become liquid in the center, which exposes the stems of the outlet. At this point, it is recommended to transplant the plant by dividing the bush, after which it will be able to resume and rejoice the aesthetic appeal. Room stonegrass is transplanted as needed, when the space in the pot becomes small, choosing a container only slightly larger than the previous one.
Weeding. The plant does not need weeding, as it inhibits the growth of weeds. Weeding may be needed only in areas free from flowery shrubs.
Read also about geykher - another representative of stone-heel plants: species, varieties, cultivation, reproduction (seed).
Soil and fertilizer
Although saxifrage is capable of growing on any soil, it still prefers a light, moderately nourishing soil mixed with limestone, gravel, sand and peat. 
On the garden plot, the plant can be planted in the soil that is, except to add the specified components to it. For planting in a pot, you can take the usual soil from the store or prepare the mixture yourself, taking for this turfy ground, coarse sand and peat (humus) in the ratio 1: 1: 2.
The acidity of the soil should be from 5.5 to 6.5 pH.
Learn how to independently determine the acidity and deoxidize the soil on the site.
Fertilizers can choose liquid mineral (added with irrigation), organic (bone meal) and superphosphate. In the store, you can simply take the usual liquid fertilizer for ornamental plants.
Watering and moisture
Watering loves moderate and regular, the main thing is that the water does not stagnate, otherwise the root system will rot.
When grown in the garden watering should be flowing. The soil should always be slightly wet, but without stagnant water.
When grown in indoor conditions, it is important that the soil inside the pot was slightly damp, but the top layer had time to dry slightly. 
In winter, watering is more sparse, but if the apartment is very warm, then the stonegrass needs more abundant watering.
If the air temperature exceeds +20 ° C, then the plant should be provided with high humidity. Watering is carried out as the land dries. Regular spraying is necessary, it is possible to put a tank with water for evaporation next to it.
Important! An indicator that Arends’s saberjack needs to be watered is the drying of the soil 2-3 cm deep.
Breeding
Arends’s saberjack can breed in 2 ways: by seed and vegetatively. Consider the features of each of them.
Did you know? The silver-gray color of the leaves of some species of saxifrage is due to the fact that this plant is capable of producing lime, which gives the green leaves such a shade.
Seeds
The success of sprouting from seed depends on the main condition: the seeds must be kept in the cold. 
To prepare the seeds for planting begin in April.
The process of growing from seed includes the steps:
- Prepare a container or box for planting seeds. At the bottom lay a layer of drainage (expanded clay, pebbles), on top fall asleep with a small layer (3-4 cm) of nutrient and light soil from peat and sand.
- The soil is well moistened and seeds are poured on top of it, slightly pressing it down.
- The container is placed in the refrigerator for a period of 14 to 20 days.
- At the end of the cooling period, the container with the seeds is taken out and covered with food film or a glass lid and placed on a windowsill with good illumination.
- The air temperature should now be from +18 to +22 ° С. The soil is periodically sprayed with water.
- The first shoots appear in a week. From this point on, the film must be periodically opened to provide air access.
- After the first 2 true leaves appear, shoots can be dived into separate pots.
- With warming it is worth starting to take out the pots with the sprouts on the balcony or on the street in order to gradually accustom them to street conditions and temper them.
- Young plants are transplanted to a permanent place in early June.
- With this method of breeding flower carpet for the first time only bloom next year.
Video: growing Arends' stonefringer
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Vegetative
Vegetative reproduction of saxifrage is also carried out in 2 ways: cutting and dividing the bush.
Propagation by cuttings is carried out in June-July, after the plant has fully bloomed. This is done as follows:
- Long side shoots tendril bend to the ground and secured with staples.
- In the place of fastening form a small hole and sprinkle part of the cutting with earth.
- It is necessary to keep the earth always slightly wet - this contributes to a better rooting of the shoot.
- In the autumn, the plants are covered with a layer of foliage or spruce leaves and left to spend the winter.
- In the spring, remove a layer of mulch and check which of the cuttings are rooted.
- New plants are separated from the parent bush and transplanted to a new location.
The second way is division of an adult bushwhen it fully ottsvetet in June and July, - is carried out as follows:
- Plants that will be planted are selected, and a shady place in the garden (temporary), where it is necessary to plant new individuals.
- Dig shallow wells, put a layer of drainage to the bottom.
- The ground dug from the hole is mixed with sand, limestone and compost.
- Plants are well watered before dividing so that they are easily separated.
- Bush gently dig up with the roots, making sure that they are not damaged by manipulation.
- The excavated bush is divided into sharp parts with a garden spatula so that each separated socket has good roots and a green mass.
- Separated new plants are immediately planted in cooked holes, sprinkled with earth, tamped and watered.
Until next spring, young bushes will live in the shade in temporary holes. For the winter they need to be covered. And only in the spring they can be dug and transplanted to a permanent place. Some gardeners immediately plant young plants in permanent wells.
Important! Dividing bush - it is not only a breeding method, but also a necessary rejuvenating measure, which should be carried out every 4-5 years.
Wintering
Arems' saberfoil is a winter-hardy plant, it calmly tolerates cold and frost. Covering it is necessary if winter is predicted without snow and with severe frosts. 
However, despite the cold resistance of the flower carpet, many gardeners still cover the plants for the winter - this certainly will not hurt them, and will certainly protect them from unexpected cold snaps.
Shelter for saxifrage can be made of fallen leaves or lapnik. The layer of mulch should be about 10 cm.
Did you know? Saxifrage - an extraordinary plant that has deservedly become a floral symbol of several localities at once: the city of Derry in England, the province of Nunavut in Canada and the province of Nordland in Norway.
Possible difficulties in growing
Growing the Arend's stoneworm is quite simple. Difficulties may arise due to failure to comply with simple conditions of plant care:
- With very abundant watering and stagnation of water in the ground, the root system will rot.
- At too high a temperature, heat, heat, the bushes will dry out and lose their decorative effect.
- If saxifrage grows in direct sunlight, it will not have the most attractive appearance.
- If you spray or water the plant in the first half of the day, and then the direct rays of the sun fall on it, burns may appear on the leaves.
- If the leaves of saxifrage grown in the apartment, manually cleaned from dust, they can be damaged.
- If you do not rejuvenate the bushes by dividing into new individuals, then the old plant will look unattractive - thin and dry.
- If you do not remove the faded flower stalks, then the process of blooming of new flowers will not be stimulated.
- Lower leaves often turn yellow and dry. They need to be removed. If the dry foliage becomes too much, then the plant is already old and needs rejuvenation (transplant).
Pests, diseases and prevention
Arenda's scarfoss is practically not sick and is not subject to the invasion of parasites, but the tendency to some diseases and pests she still has:
- Spider mite, due to which yellow specks and whitish webs appear on the leaves. For treatment, the affected leaves must be completely removed, and the plant itself - washed with water from the tap, and then treated with a tick agent.
- Small insects chervets. They are most often collected by hand with tweezers.
- Green aphid causes an unpleasant sticky black bloom on the leaves. You can get rid of it with insecticides.
- Mealy dew causes white scurf and is also destroyed by insecticides.
- Septor becomes a cause of leaf spotting and is treated with a solution of copper sulphate.
- Rusty specks on a plant cause a rust fungus that can be disposed of with vitriol or soapy water.
Learn what types of spider mites are and how to deal with a pest.
Despite the rather big list of diseases and pests, it is still more rare. If you properly care for her and ensure her natural growing conditions, the plants will be healthy and strong. Most often, those plants are ill, the rules for caring for which are violated - for example, the bushes are too abundantly poured with water, and their roots are rotting, or the saxweed is too much in the open sun, and then there is a high probability of being affected by spider mites.
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