For registration of the Alpine hills, rokariyev, breast walls, brick and stone fences will be ideal arabis. This perennial plant has property to expand quickly. Also it can be landed along garden paths, between bushes, to issue edges of beds. Blossoms arabis in the spring from May to June, filling air around itself surprising aroma.
Arabis – unpretentious plant, does not demand any special soil. The only thing that needs to be considered, is good drainage as the plant does not transfer excess of moisture. Watering has to be rare and moderate, only in hot droughty weather it is necessary to watch that the soil did not dry up. Arabis well grows on the solar site and in half-shade. On the lit site the plant is abundant blossoms, and in shadow quickly expands.
This plant rather frost-resistant, can transfer frost - 6C, well winters under snow. Does not demand any fertilizing. However before blossoming of fertilizer will not prevent.
When leaving for arabisy special attention needs to be paid to weeding. As the perennial quickly expands, it is worth shortening escapes that the plant did not bother other cultures.
It is possible to make multiple copies arabis seeds, cherenkovaniye. At seed reproduction the seeds sow in the spring or towards the winter. At spring landing the plant will blossom the next year. To receive shanks, it is necessary to cut off top of stalk about 8 cm long and to put it under inclination on depth of 4 cm. During rooting the shanks need to be watered, sprayed, shaded from direct sunshine. In September the plants can be planted on the constant place. One more way of reproduction – by means of layers. To receive to layer, it is necessary to bend stalk of plant to the earth and to fix in the place of sheet knot. The top of this stalk needs to be prishchepnut. When there are roots, the turned-out socket can be separated from the main bush.
As arabis on one place can grow long enough, the plant needs updating. For this purpose sites where escapes were extended and have become bare, it is necessary to powder with the sand mixed with humus. It will allow plant to receive additional fertilizing, new escapes will appear. Thus arabis will rejuvenate. After blossoming the peduncles need to be removed, and smoky carved leaflets will give to plant decorative look.