Succulents – group of plants which are very different and unpretentious often live in droughty areas and survive because they accumulate in themselves water, and at the expense of the wax raid covering stalks and leaves, water very slowly evaporates. Living in desert areas have prickles, the most known succulents – cactus, monetary tree, kalanchoe and aloe.
Because of such unpretentiousness in leaving and variety of flowers and forms, ease in replacing and opportunity to combine it is a lot of various compositions, succulents became favourites during landscaping creation.
That they well developed, the sandy soil, moderate watering and the sun is necessary, in the absence of it they will be painful and soft.
They will well take root between crevices and stones of landscape compositions, in superficial decorative bowls, and even on walls. Landing them, it is necessary to leave places for growth, and it is desirable to land in beds of unpretentious plants excessively not to fill in when watering.
Apply to flower compositions more often:
- Stone rose or in common people hare cabbage (echeveria).
- Love tree (aikhrizon).
- Acutifoliate agave.
- The prickly pear blossoming in yellow colors.
- Liviziya who blossoms in different flowers.
Some types have needles if at you in garden animals run or there are children, it is better not to land them in order to avoid injuries.
Succulents seeds, shoots or leaves breed. Sometimes it is enough to tear off shoot and just to thrust it to the earth. It is so possible to fill all free space in garden.
It is possible to do various compositions of succulents:
- To land drawings and figures of different forms in bed.
- To land different grades in bowl, garden sculpture, decorative shell.
- In the foozle or stone to land in slots and deepenings.
- Using framework, to make topiary.
- To land as mosaic, alternating different types.
There are no plants with requirements below, than at succulents, they can grow on stone, in snag, on wall and in normal bed. There are many options as to seat them that the garden became more beautiful and more unusual. Some of succulents are capable to change light depending on lighting. Many gardeners collect rare species of succulents in the garden, carefully transplant compositions and provide thorough care, recreating natural beauty of deserts and reserved zones.